{"id":45241,"date":"2016-10-10T03:21:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T21:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=45241"},"modified":"2016-10-10T03:21:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T21:51:34","slug":"notes-judges-stenos-dont-come-rti-hc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/notes-judges-stenos-dont-come-rti-hc","title":{"rendered":"Notes of judges&#8217; stenos don&#8217;t come under RTI: HC"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_44338\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44338\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"44338\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/hc-no-allow-provisional-admission-2-institutes\/delhi-hc\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/delhi-HC.jpg?fit=302%2C201&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"302,201\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"delhi HC\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/delhi-HC.jpg?fit=302%2C201&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-44338 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/delhi-HC.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Notes of judges' stenos don't come under RTI: HC\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/delhi-HC.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/delhi-HC.jpg?resize=150%2C100&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/08\/delhi-HC.jpg?w=302&amp;ssl=1 302w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-44338\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Notes of judges&#8217; stenos don&#8217;t come under RTI: HC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Notes dictated by a judge to a stenographer during the hearing of a case would not be considered as a record held by a public authority and hence cannot be sought under the Right to Information Act, Delhi High Court has ruled.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shorthand notebook can at best be treated as a memo of what is dictated to a steno to be later transcribed into a draft judgment or an order.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When draft judgments and order do not form part of a &#8216;record&#8217; held by a public authority, a shorthand note book which is memo of what is dictated and which would later be typed to become a draft judgment or an order can certainly not be held to be &#8216;record&#8217; held by a public authority,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva said.<\/p>\n<p>The court further clarified that shorthand note books were not retained and cannot be equated with a judgment or an order, which forms part of the judicial record.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling came in a judgement dismissing the plea of a man seeking copies of the shorthand note books in which the stenographer takes dictation of the court.<\/p>\n<p>The court upheld the March 7 order of Central Information Commission (CIC) by which petitioner Tapan Choudhury was denied copies of shorthand notes taken in the high court on May 27, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The petitioner was denied the information by the Public Information Officer of the high court, who said that shorthand notes were not retained.<\/p>\n<p>The first appellate authority had also held that &#8220;no such record was maintained and thus the same cannot be furnished&#8221; to the petitioner.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Sachdeva in his decision also relied on a full bench judgement of the high court, which had held that even draft judgments signed and exchanged are not to be considered as final judgment but only a tentative view liable to change.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has been held that draft judgment cannot be said to be information held by a public authority. 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