Top Law News Process to appoint CIC should be same as chief election commissioner: Supreme Court February 15, 2019 / February 15, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Friday passed a slew of directions on filling up vacancies in the Central Information Commission (CIC) and state information commissions (SICs) and said the process of appointments must start one to two months before a post falls vacant. A bench comprising Justices A K Sikri and S A Nazeer said the […] Read more » CIC Justice A.K. Sikri Justice S A Nazeer
Top Law News MP High Court: Wife has the right to know husband’s salary details May 28, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A woman had the right to know the remuneration of her husband, the Madhya Pradesh High Court has observed. A High Court bench of Justices SK Seth and Nandita Dubey made the observation while hearing the petition of Sunita Jain who had sought a higher maintenance amount from her estranged husband claiming that he was […] Read more » central public information officer CIC featured KC Ghildiyal Madhya Pradesh High Court Pawan Kumar Jain SK Seth
High Profile Cases Top Law News Centre in High Court against CIC order on Khemka’s deputation May 28, 2018 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Centre has moved the Delhi High Court against a CIC order asking it to inform whether IAS officer Ashok Khemka, known for cancelling Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra’s alleged illegal land deal in Gurgaon, was considered for the post of joint secretary in the Centre. The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) in its […] Read more » Ashok Khemka C K Bhatt CIC Delhi High Court DoPT's featured IAS Rahul Sharma Robert Vadra RTI Act. Vibhu Bakhru
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
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 Order to reveal IB report on whistle-blower stayed June 8, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Delhi High Court today stayed an order of the Chief Information Commission (CIC) directing the Intelligence Bureau (IB) to make public its report on alleged harassment of whistle-blower IFoS officer Sanjiv Chaturvedi. Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva stayed the operation of CIC’s April 21 order till the next date of hearing on August 9 on the IB’s […] Read more » .Chief Information Commission CIC Court directing the Intelligence Bureau featured IB Law Legal News whistle-blower
Top Law News Maintain daily order sheet: Delhi High Court directs CIC March 31, 2016 by Legal India News | Leave a Comment Delhi High Court has directed the Central Information Commission to maintain daily order sheets following complaints that while appellants contentions were agreed upon during hearing, these were dismissed when final orders are passed by the transparency panel. “Since the CIC is a quasi-judicial body, this Court was also of the view that its records must […] Read more » CIC Delhi High Court featured Maintain daily order sheet Maintain daily order sheet: Delhi High Court directs CIC
Bar, Bench & Firm News Information on SC benches may arouse regional feelings: CIC November 17, 2014 / November 17, 2014 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Disclosure of information related to setting of Supreme Court benches outside Delhi may “arouse regional feelings” and create “needless political controversy” resulting in law and order problem, the CIC has held allowing the apex court to withhold it. “We find force in the arguments of the respondent that the information sought, if disclosed at this […] Read more » activist R K Jain Appellant Rajiv Rufus CIC Disclosure of information related to setting of Supreme Court Information on SC benches needless political controversy
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 ‘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
