-The Times of India City-based Public Concern for Governance Trust has decided to provide a platform to citizens who are scared of filing right to information (RTI) applications. The Trust has urged citizens to write to them about the RTI application they want to file and the reasons for it. Acting chairman of the Trust, Bhaskar Misar, said that each application will be studied by their team of legal experts, and if...
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Haryana govt to provide security cover to whistleblowers, RTI Activists
-The Times of India The Haryana government introduced a policy to provide security to whistleblowers and RTI Activists in the state if they report to police of specific threats. The state home department issued a notification on this on Tuesday. State home secretary Samir Mathur told TOI that the scale of security cover would depend on the nature of threat perception. "We can provide a cop or a gunman or even a...
More »Central notification exempting CBI from purview of RTI Act upheld by KT Sangameswaran
The Madras High Court on Friday upheld a notification of the Centre issued in June this year exempting the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) from the purview of the Right to Information (RTI) Act. In its order dismissing a public interest litigation petition challenging the exemption, the First Bench consisting of the Chief Justice M.Y. Eqbal and Justice T.S. Sivagnanam said that indisputably, CBI was investigating several cases of larger public...
More »CBI may exhume Shehla's body by Deshdeep Saxena
RTI Activist Shehla Masood's body may be exhumed for further investigations and a re-postmortem. Sources claimed that as the CBIinvestigations progressed, the premium investigating agency is contemplating having another look at the body. Shehla was shot dead on August 16 from point blank range, 22 days back, and was buried the same day. Now the point being pondered by the CBI is that if they go ahead with digging out...
More »Ajay Maken slams Mani Shanker Aiyer for his 'obstructionist' role in CWG
-PTI Sports Minister Ajay Maken has accused former minister Mani Shanker Aiyar of playing an "irreparable obstructionist role" in the Commonwealth Games projects resulting in cost escalation. These comments were made by Maken in his report sought by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh after media highlighted letters by Aiyar wherein he had warned about the squandering of money by the Suresh Kalmadi chaired Organising Committee. The communication now made public under the RTI Act...
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