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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | CIC to CJI: Lend your voice to strengthen, not curb, RTI

CIC to CJI: Lend your voice to strengthen, not curb, RTI

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published Published on Apr 20, 2012   modified Modified on Apr 20, 2012
-The Hindu

Expressing concern over the reported comments of the Chief Justice of India S.H. Kapadia that Right to Information queries were impeding the working of Judges, the Chief Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi had written to the CJI to lend his powerful voice to increasing the effectiveness and reach of RTI and not support those who seek to curb it.

In a recent letter addressed to Mr. Justice Kapadia, the CIC drew his attention to a newspaper report quoting the CJI as saying that RTI queries were impeding the working of judges and maintained that the comments — if correctly reported — may dampen the RTI journey of India.

Conceding that there were people who use the RTI in a trivial manner, Mr. Gandhi said that it applied to all rights and, in fact, to all actions of human beings in society.

“It is possible to show cases where the RTI may have been used in a trivial manner. Similarly, it would be possible to show that various progressive laws — such as the Dowry Act, the Atrocities Act, etc. — may have been used in a trivial manner or to harass innocent people. But all of us recognise the beneficial results of these, and do not talk of constricting them,” the letter said.

Mr. Gandhi referred to the media report quoting the CJI as having said that there must be a limit to RTI and maintained that ideally, there should be very few limits to the fundamental rights of citizens.

The CIC contended that limits to the RTI could only be set by Parliament, which had already done this by coding the RTI Act. He maintained that the RTI Act was just beginning to make a small difference in the power equation between the citizens and government.

Mr. Gandhi said that the average citizen's interactions with government were usually humiliating and annoying and against that backdrop, the RTI was showing hopes of bringing correction, and perhaps had a potential of “making our nation a true democracy which recognises the sovereignty of the Indian citizen.”

The CIC wrote that the remarks of the CJI could have a significant negative impact on the RTI and various functionaries would quote the remarks to justify putting fetters on the citizen's rights.

The Hindu, 20 April, 2012, http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article3334321.ece


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