{"id":9682,"date":"2011-03-29T00:49:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T19:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=9682"},"modified":"2011-03-29T00:49:39","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T19:19:39","slug":"notice-to-government-on-plea-for-appointments-in-rti-ambit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/notice-to-government-on-plea-for-appointments-in-rti-ambit","title":{"rendered":"Notice to government on plea for appointments in RTI ambit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Right-to-Information1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9683\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/notice-to-government-on-plea-for-appointments-in-rti-ambit\/right-to-information-4\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/03\/Right-to-Information1.jpg?fit=190%2C136&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"190,136\" 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;}\" data-image-title=\"Right to Information\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/03\/Right-to-Information1.jpg?fit=150%2C107&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/03\/Right-to-Information1.jpg?fit=190%2C136&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9683\" title=\"Right to Information\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Right-to-Information1.jpg?resize=190%2C136&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/03\/Right-to-Information1.jpg?w=190&amp;ssl=1 190w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/03\/Right-to-Information1.jpg?resize=150%2C107&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/a>The Delhi High Court Monday sought the central government&#8217;s response on a petition challenging a single judge&#8217;s ruling that information pertaining to the appointment of top bureaucrats cannot be revealed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act.<\/p>\n<p>A division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna issued notice to the department of personnel and training (DOPT) and sought its reply by July 14 on an appeal filed by RTI activist and Magsaysay Award winner Arvind Kejriwal against the single judge&#8217;s order, given in July 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Kejriwal had requested the government to provide him the information on the ground that people had the right to know the grade assigned to an officer who was empanelled.<\/p>\n<p>In his petition, he said that he was allowed to inspect files pertaining to appointment of secretaries, deputy secretaries in different ministries but he was not supplied with photocopies of the documents.<\/p>\n<p>Kejriwal had approached the Central Information Commission (CIC) which had rejected the the government&#8217;s argument that the disclosure would amount to invasion in the privacy of an officer, and June 12, 2008 asked the DOPT and the cabinet secretariat to disclose details pertaining to selection of officers for the posts of secretaries and additional secretaries.<\/p>\n<p>However, the central government approached the Delhi High Court against the CIC&#8217;s order.<\/p>\n<p>The single judge had set aside the order and rejected Kejriwal&#8217;s plea that information relating to appointment of secretaries in different ministries falls within the ambit of the transparency law and justice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This court holds that the CIC was not justified in overruling the objection of the centre and directing the government and the DoPT to provide copies of the documents as sought by Kejriwal,&#8217; the single judge had said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delhi High Court Monday sought the central government&#8217;s response on a petition challenging a single judge&#8217;s ruling that information pertaining to the appointment of top bureaucrats cannot be revealed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. 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