Overview
- Petitioners R. Ganga and G. D. Pavithra asked the High Court to order release of two unpaid instalments for February and March 2025 that they say were withheld during a DBT transition.
- The petition seeks an escrow of about ₹5,000 crore to secure payment for roughly 1.26 crore women heads of household who registered for the scheme.
- The complaint says the state moved payment routing from the Department of Women and Child Development to taluk panchayats and that the Finance Department failed to carry unpaid allocations into the next financial year.
- The petition frames the withholding as a violation of beneficiaries' legitimate expectation and of Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution, and the court on May 21, 2026 asked the government to respond.
- The dispute now centers on administrative implementation and fiscal accounting with the government due to file objections and the court deciding whether to order escrow or other relief that would restore payments to affected families.