Top Law News Seeking bank employees’ personal info exempted under RTI: SC September 3, 2017 / September 3, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court has held that seeking information about individual bank employees which were personal in nature and devoid of any public interest, was exempted under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. The court made the observation while allowing an appeal filed by Canara Bank challenging an order of the Kerala High Court directing it […] Read more » Central Information Commission CIC featured Justice A M Sapre Justice R.K. Agrawal personal info exempted under RTI Right to Information Act RTI RTI Act. SC Seeking bank employees
High Profile Cases Prez Secretariat moves HC against CIC order on housing complex May 1, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The President’s Secretariat has sought relief from the Delhi High Court from an order of the Central Information Commission directing it to disclose the security concerns it has raised against allowing a residential complex in the tony neighbourhood of the Rashtrapati Bhavan. The case relates to the use of a 9.26-hectare (22.9 acres) dairy farm […] Read more » Central Information Commission Court Delhi High Court featured Law Legal News Rashtrapati Bhavan
Top Law News No power to CIC to order jails to pay damages: Delhi HC January 28, 2017 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Central Information Commission (CIC) does not have the power to direct Tihar Jail to develop a system of compensating inmates who have been incarcerated beyond their period of sentence, Delhi High Court has held. “Prima facie, this power does not vest in the CIC,” Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva said while staying operation of the September 29, […] Read more » Central Information Commission CIC Court Delhi High Court featured Law Legal News Tihar Jail
Top Law News Plea in SC for amendment in RTI Act March 15, 2016 / March 15, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment New Delhi, A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the Centre to amend the RTI Act for fixing time limit for disposal of appeals by the Central Information Commission and state information panels. The plea has been filed by an RTI activist against an order of the Allahabad High […] Read more » Allahabad High Court Central Information Commission featured gonda lawyer Shiv Kumar Tripathi Rakesh Kumar Tewari RTI Act. Sarju Nahar Khand Shiv Kumar Tripathi state information panels Supreme Court
Court, Judiciary & Legal System Over 37,000 RTI appeals pending with CIC February 25, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Over 37,000 appeals under the RTI Act are pending with the Central Information Commission, the government today said, indicating that a lack of time limit for disposal of 2nd appeals by the body is the reason behind the large pendency. As on February 17, a total of 37,935 2nd appeals are pending with the CIC, […] Read more » 37000 RTI appeals pending with CIC Central Information Commission RTI appeals pending RTI appeals pending with CIC
Top Law News Bill to amend RTI Act likely in parliament Monday August 12, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The government is Monday likely to introduce in the Lok Sabha a bill to amend the Right to Information (RTI) Act to keep political parties out of its ambit, informed sources said. The issue has been in the limelight after a June 3 Central Information Commission (CIC) order stated that six national political parties would […] Read more » Bill to amend RTI Act likely in parliament Monday Central Information Commission CIC national news news RIGHT TO INFORMATION RTI todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News Activists oppose amendments to RTI Act August 6, 2013 / August 6, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Civil society activists are gearing up for an offensive against the government’s proposed legislation to exclude political parties from the ambit of the RTI Act. Besides petitions to parliamentarians, the PM and the President urging them not to support the amendments, activists plan to hold protest demonstrations and even challenge the legislation in court as […] Read more » Activists oppose amendments to RTI Act ADR Aruna Roy Association of Democratic Reforms Central Information Commission CIC National Campaign for People's Right to Information national news NCPRI news Prof Jagdeep Chhokar RTI Act. Shailesh Gandhi Shekhar Singh todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News CIC adjourns BCCI hearing July 26, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Central Information Commission today adjourned a crucial hearing on declaring the Indian cricket board as public authority under RTI Act after the sports body produced a stay from the Madras High Court. The Commission had constituted a Full Bench to hear the matter and issued notice to the Board of Control for Cricket in […] Read more » BCCI Board of Control for Cricket in India Central Information Commission CIC adjourns BCCI hearing national news news todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News ‘CBI can’t carry out enquiry without talking to government’ July 10, 2013 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on ‘CBI can’t carry out enquiry without talking to government’ Against the backdrop of the Supreme Court restraining the CBI from speaking to the government on its ongoing investigations into the coal scam, the law ministry feels that the probe agency can’t go about its preliminary enquiry with such communication. “It is not possible for the CBI not to talk to the government during the course of its investigation at the […] Read more » 'CBI can't carry out enquiry without talking to government' Central Information Commission CIC Lakshman Rekha national news news todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News CIC order on parties: RTI applicants file caveat in HC June 6, 2013 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on CIC order on parties: RTI applicants file caveat in HC A caveat was on Wednesday filed in the Delhi High Court to pre-empt any ex-parte stay on the Central Information Commission order bringing political parties under the purview of Right to Information Act. The Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), a civil society claiming to bring transparency in Indian politics, on whose plea the CIC had […] Read more » ADR Association for Democratic Reforms Central Information Commission CIC CIC order on parties: RTI applicants file caveat in HC Delhi High Court national news news Right to Information Act RTI Act. todays news todays top news Top news
Top Law News SC stays part of its verdict on appointments in info panels April 17, 2013 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed its direction that only sitting or retired chief justices of High Courts or an apex court judge can head the Central and State Information Commissions. A bench of justices A. K. Patnaik and A.K. Sikri also directed “that wherever a Chief Information Commissioner is of the opinion that intricate […] Read more » Central Information Commission chief information commissioner Chief Justice of India Chief Justices of the High Court information commissioners retired chief justices of High Courts retired judges of apex court Right to Information Act RTI Act. State Information Commission
Top Law News High Court sets aside CIC order to AIIMS to reveal ques papers December 7, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court set aside a Central Information Commission’s order to AIIMS to provide an information seeker the questions and their answers for its MBBS entrance tests from 1991 to 2010. “Having regard to an earlier judgement (on similar issue pertaining to AIIMS) of a division bench, I could not see any scope to […] Read more » AIIMS All India Institute of Medical Sciences Central Information Commission Delhi High Court MBBS MBBS entrance exams
