Top Law News Centre plea on info panel appointments has admitted by the Sumpreme Court November 23, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Centre’s plea has been admitted by the Supreme Court to review its judgement which had stipulated that only sitting or retired chief justices of high courts or an apex court judge can head the Central and state information commissions. While admitting the plea, a bench of justices A K Patnaik and Swatanter Kumar, however, made […] Read more » 2005 apex court judge bench of justice Central Information Commission Centre's plea chief information commissioner chief justices of high court information commissioners justices A K Patnaik and Swatanter Kumar Right to Information Act sections 12 and 15 of the Right to Information Act Supreme Court
Top Law News Appoint people with judicial background to CIC: SC September 14, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Holding that Central and state Information Commissions perform quasi-judicial functions, the Supreme Court today asked the government to appoint people from judicial background also as its members. A bench of justices A K Patnaik and Swatanter Kumar also lifted the stay on appointment of information commissioners. The bench passed the order on a PIL challenging […] Read more » Appoint people with judicial background to CIC: SC Central Information Commission chief information commissioner Information Commissions perform quasi-judicial functions judicial background Justices A K Patnaik justices Swatanter Kumar PIL challenging section 12 posts of Information Commissioners are vacant in the CIC Right to Information Act work of the CIC under the RTI Act
Top Law News Information panels should be manned by judicial people: SC September 13, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court Thursday held that the Central Information Commission and state information commissions are forums performing quasi-judicial functions and thus these should be manned by people with judicial background. The court said that one of the two members hearing a plea challenging the denial of information has to be from judicial background. The apex […] Read more » Central Information Commission Chief Justice of India chief justices of the respective high courts Clause five of Section 12 forums performing quasi-judicial functions Information panels should be manned by judicial people: SC Justice A.K. Patnaik Justice Swatanter Kumar plea challenging the denial of information Right to Information Act state information commissions state level commission members
Top Law News Gujarat riots: CIC order reversed to reveal communication between PM, Prez July 11, 2012 / July 11, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court today set aside a Central Information Commission’s(CIC) order to the Centre to reveal to it the communication between erstwhile Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and President K R Narayanan over the 2002 Gujarat riots. Justice Anil Kumar gave the order, allowing the Centre’s appeal against the CIC’s directions. In the facts […] Read more » Article 74(2) Article 74(2) of the Constitution of India Atal Behari Vajpayee Central Information Commission CIC Delhi High Court erstwhile Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee Gujarat riots K R Narayanan President K R Narayanan Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee RIGHT TO INFORMATION Right to Information Act RTI Act.
Top Law News CIC: Govt to disclose information on mercy petitions June 27, 2012 / June 27, 2012 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on CIC: Govt to disclose information on mercy petitions The Central Information Commission (CIC) has directed the Home Ministry to disclose file notings and correspondence related to the mercy petitions of all death row convicts including Parliament attack accused Afzal Guru. Giving the order information commissioner Sushma Singh asked the home ministry to provide information of mercy petitions related to all convicts (pending and […] Read more » 8(1)(a) of the RTI Act Central Information Commission CIC information regarding mercy petitions mercy petition of Afzal Guru mercy petitions RTI in mercy petitions S C Agrawal S C Agrawal an RTI activist S C Agrawal on mercy petitions
Top Law News DDA ordered to pay Rs.3,000 damages to RTI applicant May 30, 2012 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Central Information Commission has directed the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to hand out a compensation of Rs.3000 to an RTI applicant for providing “misleading information” which caused her mental and physical harassment. Laxmi Aggarwal had filed a right to information (RTI) application with the DDA on March 11, 2011, inquiring the time of de-sealing […] Read more » Central Information Commission DDA ordered to pay
Top Law News No need to make emergency documents public: Court July 12, 2011 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court Tuesday stayed a Central Information Commission’s (CIC) order to the president’s office to make public all documents on declaration of the emergency in 1975 by the then president Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, including communications from the then prime minister Indira Gandhi. Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw issued a notice to S.C. Aggarwal, a […] Read more » Central Information Commission central public information officer CIC CPIO Delhi High Court emergency documents Rashtrapati Bhavan
Top Law News Notice to government on plea for appointments in RTI ambit March 29, 2011 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Notice to government on plea for appointments in RTI ambit The Delhi High Court Monday sought the central government’s response on a petition challenging a single judge’s ruling that information pertaining to the appointment of top bureaucrats cannot be revealed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. A division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna issued notice to the department of […] Read more » Appointments Central Information Commission Chief Justice Dipak Misra CIC Delhi High Court DoPT Government Justice Sanjiv Khanna notice plea RTI ambit