In a relief to Greenpeace India Society, the Madras High Court today granted an interim stay for eight weeks on the cancellation of the NGO's registration under Foreign Contribution Regulations Act, FCRA. Justice M M Sundresh stayed the Union Home Ministry's order of September 2 cancelling FCRA 2010 registration number of the NGO's and issued a notice to it, returnable in eight weeks.<br/><br/>The Greenpeace India's Executive Director had filed a petition challenging the cancellation. Greenpeace had already fought several rounds of litigations, including one where it won order permitting the NGO to access its domestic funds, on the ground that domestic funds were beyond the scope of FCRA. The recent order cancelling FCRA registration of the NGO has been on nine grounds including one which says Greenpeace transferred its foreign contributions worth Rs 8.05 lakh in 2010-11 to employees of Greenpeace Environment Trust in violation of FCRA rules. The NGO said the charge was wholly false and that no such transfer was made in violation of the law.