Three-judge bench petition on county development spending

Suc­cess­fully de­fend­ing a county gov­ern­ment be­fore a three-judge bench of the High Court in a con­sti­tu­tional pe­ti­tion brought by a hu­man rights or­gan­isa­tion against 22 county gov­ern­ments and their um­brella body, chal­len­ging the counties’ com­pli­ance with the re­quire­ment to al­loc­ate and spend at least 30% of their budgets on de­vel­op­ment.