The Delhi High Court has dismissed a writ petition filed by the directorate general of health services (DGHS), refusing to interfere with a central information commission (CIC) order that directed disclosure of information, payment of ₹45,000 as compensation to a right to information applicant and imposed a ₹15,000 penalty on the public information officer (PIO) for obstructing access to information.
Even as anti-citizenship protests continue to rage across the country, the Lucknow University has queered the pitch by demanding citizenship proof from RTI applicants.
The Supreme Court on Friday said that the information commissioners, both at the Centre and in the States, under the Right to Information Act should also be appointed from other streams of the society and not limited just to serving or retired bureaucrats.
The PIO of the School neither provided any information nor appeared before the Bench for show cause hearings, forcing the CIC to levy a penalty of Rs25,000. This is the 207th in a series of important RTI judgements given by former Central Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi
The CIC asked RBI to share action taken against scams and economic inconsistencies of United Mercantile Cooperative Bank and the daily progress reports. This is the 202nd in a series of important RTI judgements given by former Central Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi
Merely stating that the information sought is confidential in nature cannot be a reason and the PIO needs to establish the applicability of the exemption under RTI Act, the CIC ruled. This is the 201st in a series of important RTI judgements given by former Central Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi