The Delhi High Court Thursday stayed a Central Information Commission (CIC) order asking the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) to give details of inspection reports of cooperative banks to a Right to Information (RTI) applicant.<\/p>\n
Justice Vipin Sanghi stayed the order against the rural development bank in view of a similar pending case before it, which is scheduled to be taken up Feb 13, 2012.<\/p>\n
The court issued notice to RTI applicant Krishan Lal Mittal and said the case related to his RTI plea would be heard on the same day.<\/p>\n
The petition was filed by NABARD, seeking relief against the order of the CIC directing it to provide information on inspection reports of cooperative banks to Mittal.<\/p>\n
Mittal, apart from seeking the inspection reports, asked for details of correspondence since January 2010 among NABARD, the Maharashtra government and the Reserve Bank of India regarding Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank.<\/p>\n
He had also sought minutes of the meeting of board of directors of NABARD from April 2007.<\/p>\n
The Public Information Officer (PIO) rejected Mittal’s appeal to provide such information on the ground that disclosure of the reports would adversely affect the economic interests of the state.<\/p>\n
On second appeal, the information commissioner directed the rural development bank to provide the copies of the inspection reports before Dec 10.<\/p>\n
In a similar case, the high court earlier stayed an order of the CIC directing the Reserve Bank of India to provide details of the inspection reports relating to a cooperative bank to an RTI applicant. The matter is listed for hearing Feb 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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