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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Right to Information Act Under Threat as Ten-Year Old ‘Interim’ Order Holds CIC Together -Nipun Arora and Annanya Mehan

Right to Information Act Under Threat as Ten-Year Old ‘Interim’ Order Holds CIC Together -Nipun Arora and Annanya Mehan

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published Published on Jul 16, 2020   modified Modified on Jul 18, 2020

-Newsclick.in

The threat to right to information is not only from the government but from within the Central Information Commission (CIC) as well.

Several activists and scholars, including former information commissioners, have recently expressed concern over the government’s dilution of the Right to Information Act (RTI). However, the threat to right to information is not only from the government but from within the Central Information Commission (CIC) as well.

Under the Right to Information Act, 2005, the CIC has the power to directly supply information as an appellate body and can also to take action against delinquent officials if they deliberately hide information. As such, it plays a pivotal role in ensuring that the crucial democratic right is actually enforced in spirit.

The Delhi High Court had declared the CIC’s mode of functioning to be illegal in 2009, but it was stayed by the Supreme Court. It is bizarre that an institution so fundamental to the democratic system is being held together by a temporary stay order made by the Supreme Court ten years ago – and that there has been no final ruling on it ever since!

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Newsclick.in, 16 July, 2020, https://www.newsclick.in/Right-to-Information-Threat-from-Govt-Central-Information-Commission?fbclid=IwAR0Ze5lCUlROacjyq9kq0TLfXYI3P1TGOHmTsUMYMqGHHwpt6SjAGwKzzb8


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