-The Times of India The AP High Court was pulled up by the Central Information Commission (CIC) for its failure to adhere to the rti Act. Nine other high courts besides AP's have been given three months time to get their act right. The CIC was reacting to a complaint filed by Hyderabad-based rti activist C J Karira and Mani Ram Sharma of Rajasthan between December 2009 and March 2010. The complainants...
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Slain rti activist was being followed: Cops
-The Times of India Slain rti activist S Bhuvaneswaran's movements had been monitored for more than a week before he was attacked, police said. This was revealed to the police by the two men who surrendered in Kancheepuram on Wednesday. Murali and Anandan, who have been in the custody of the Kolathur police for seven days now, said they had planned to eliminate him near his house. Bhuvaneswaran was hacked to death when...
More »rti not to be used for judicial orders: CIC
-The Deccan Herald The Central Information Commission has held that the Right to Information (rti) Act cannot be used to get details of orders or judgments from the Supreme Court or the High Courts. Significantly, the transparency panel clarified that since the Supreme Court as well as High Courts prescribed their own set of rules for providing judicial records, the information seekers could not use the rti Act for that purpose. “We have...
More »Bhopal “bureaucrat club” to come under rti: State CIC by Mahim Pratap Singh
The Madhya Pradesh Chief Information Commissioner has ruled that the elite Arera Club of Bhopal, associated chiefly with bureacucrats and the city's wealthy, shall be under the purview of the Right to Information Act. Chief Information Commissioner Padmapani Tiwari in an order passed on Thursday, rejected the club officials' contention that the club was a private body and did not fall under the purview of the rti act. The CIC order came...
More »For cops, rti queries not right by Rahul Devulapalli
Here's an encounter that the city police are in no mood to encourage. Within days of a Right to Information activist subjected to third degree at a city police station, TOI finds that it wasn't a stray bad experience, with cops pulling out all stops to stay rti-proof. In fact, police officers in some stations even say they are unaware of the rti Act and remain most unresponsive when it...
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