Delhi High Court refuses 2006 Mumbai train blast convict’s plea to disclose probe report on the case
2 years, 1 month ago

Delhi High Court refuses 2006 Mumbai train blast convict’s plea to disclose probe report on the case

Op India  

Delhi High court on Friday dismissed the appeal of Ehtesham Qutubuddin Siddiqui, a death row convict in the 2006 Mumbai Train blast case against the Central Information Commission’s order. However, the High Court has directed the superintendent of Nagpur central jail to provide the petitioner with books he has sought under the RTI within four weeks either online or hard copy. The petitioner was arrested in July 2006 in connection with the 7/11 Mumbai Train Blast case by Maharashtra Anti Terrorist Squad Mumbai. On June 23, 2017, his RTI application was rejected under Section 8 of the RTI Act stating that the information sought by the applicant relates to the subject of Unlawful association which relates to the security, sovereignty and integrity of India and disclosure of the sought information may prejudicially affect the sovereignty, integrity and security of the State.

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Delhi High Court Upholds Trial Court Order Allowing Accused's Plea To Preserve Call Detail Records, Location Data Of CBI Officers
2 weeks, 5 days ago

Delhi High Court Upholds Trial Court Order Allowing Accused's Plea To Preserve Call Detail Records, Location Data Of CBI Officers

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court has observed that a Trial Court's order allowing the application of an accused for preservation of Call Detail Records and location data of CBI officers and independent witnesses is an 'interlocutory order' and thus a revision petition under Section 397 CrPC challenging the order is not applicable. It argued that the Trial Court's order prejudiced the …

Madras High Court Quashes FIR Against OpIndia's Rahul Roushan, Nupur Sharma Over Alleged Fake News On Bihari Migrants Being Attacked
2 weeks, 5 days ago

Madras High Court Quashes FIR Against OpIndia's Rahul Roushan, Nupur Sharma Over Alleged Fake News On Bihari Migrants Being Attacked

Live Law  

The Madras High Court has quashed an FIR registered against the CEO of OpIndia, Rahul Roushan, and its Editor, Nupur Sharma, for allegedly spreading fake news about migrant workers of Bihar being attacked in Tamil Nadu. Justice GK Ilanthiraiyan, on Tuesday, allowed the plea filed by Rahul and Nupur in 2023 seeking to quash the FIR registered against them by …

Right To Information (RTI) Act: All India Annual Digest 2024
1 month, 1 week ago

Right To Information (RTI) Act: All India Annual Digest 2024

Live Law  

SUPREME COURT Section 12 – Validity of Central Information Commission Regulations, 2007 framed by the Chief Information Commissioner under Section 12 of the RTI Act – Powers of the CIC – Held, the use of the words “superintendence, direction and management” in Sections 12 of the RTI Act clearly provides the CIC an ambit of power wide enough to frame …

[PM Modi Degree Row] 'RTI Act's Purpose Not To Satisfy Someone's Curiosity': DU Tells Delhi High Court
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2 months, 1 week ago

[PM Modi Degree Row] 'RTI Act's Purpose Not To Satisfy Someone's Curiosity': DU Tells Delhi High Court

Live Law  

In the case related to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's academic degree, the Delhi University on Monday told the Delhi High Court that the purpose of Right to Information Act is not to satisfy someone's curiosity. The Court was hearing DU's plea filed in 2017 challenging an order of the Central Information Commission directing it to allow inspection of records of …

7/11 local train blasts case accused are innocent, languishing in jail for 18 years: Bombay High Court
2 months, 1 week ago

7/11 local train blasts case accused are innocent, languishing in jail for 18 years: Bombay High Court

The Hindu  

The accused persons in the July 11, 2006, local train blasts case have been languishing in jail for the past 18 years despite being innocent, a senior counsel submitted to the Bombay High Court on Monday. Arguing before a special bench of Justices Anil Kilor and Shyam Chandak, senior advocate S. Muralidhar, representing two of the convicts sentenced to life …

RTI Act Not Applicable To CBI, Punjab & Haryana HC Rejects Former Income Tax Officer's Plea Seeking Info On Agency's 'Trap' Against Him
3 months, 3 weeks ago

RTI Act Not Applicable To CBI, Punjab & Haryana HC Rejects Former Income Tax Officer's Plea Seeking Info On Agency's 'Trap' Against Him

Live Law  

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has rejected an Income Tax Officer's plea seeking information under the Right to information Act relating to Trap Proceeding conducted against him by the Central Bureau of Investigation.The Income Tax Officer was convicted in a corruption case and his appeal against the conviction is pending before the High Court. The Punjab and Haryana High …

Delhi HC issues notice to ED on Sisodia’s plea
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Delhi HC issues notice to ED on Sisodia’s plea

Hindustan Times  

The Delhi high court on Monday issued a notice to the Enforcement Directorate on a plea filed by former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, challenging a city court’s decision to take cognisance of the probe agency’s charge sheet in the Delhi excise policy case. Sisodia contended that ED failed to obtain the requisite sanction under Section 197 before prosecuting …

Karnataka High Court Refuses To Discharge Alleged LeT Operative Booked For Conspiring To Kill Hindu Leaders, Govt Officials
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Karnataka High Court Refuses To Discharge Alleged LeT Operative Booked For Conspiring To Kill Hindu Leaders, Govt Officials

Live Law  

The Karnataka High Court has refused to discharge an alleged member of the banned terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba, who was charged for conspiring to kill Hindu leaders and government officials in 2012. A division bench of Justice Sreenivas Harish Kumar and Justice JM Khazi dismissed the petition filed by Dr. Sabeel Ahmed @ Motu Doctor, who challenged the Sessions court order, …

NEET UG 2024 row: SC issues notice on NTA pleas seeking transfer of case in Rajasthan HC to top court
8 months, 1 week ago

NEET UG 2024 row: SC issues notice on NTA pleas seeking transfer of case in Rajasthan HC to top court

India TV News  

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice on the petitions filed by the National Testing Agency, which sought the transfer of pending cases before the Rajasthan High Court, related to the NEET-UG 2024 examination. The Supreme Court had also asked the CBI, the Central government and the NTA to file affidavits and listed the matter on July 11. Later on …

7/11 serial train blasts: HC asks Mumbai University if convict can take law exams online
10 months, 1 week ago

7/11 serial train blasts: HC asks Mumbai University if convict can take law exams online

Hindustan Times  

Mumbai, The Bombay High Court has sought to know from the Mumbai University if it can permit a convict in the 7/11 serial bomb blasts case to take his law examinations online. 7/11 serial train blasts: HC asks Mumbai University if convict can take law exams online A division bench of Justices Makarand Karnik and Kamal Khata on Friday said …

Delhi HC rejects Mumbai train blast convict’s plea seeking info on probe officers
1 year ago

Delhi HC rejects Mumbai train blast convict’s plea seeking info on probe officers

Hindustan Times  

The Delhi high court has rejected a plea filed by 7/11 Mumbai serial train blast case death row convict Ehtesham Qutubuddin Siddiqui seeking information regarding the officers who had supervised the probe and had granted sanction to prosecute him, saying the data, if given, would expose the officials to grave danger. Rather in the facts of this case, the protected …

Delhi HC dismisses petition of Mumbai train blast death row convict Ehtesham Qutbuddin Siddiqui: Details
1 year ago

Delhi HC dismisses petition of Mumbai train blast death row convict Ehtesham Qutbuddin Siddiqui: Details

Op India  

The Delhi High Court recently dismissed petitions moved by 7/11 Mumbai Train Blast death convict Ehtesham Qutbuddin Siddiqui seeking information of officers of the Home Ministry who probed the case and gave sanction for his arrest. The High Court said, “The Information sought may expose these officers to grave danger.” He had also sought information related to an alleged report …

Delhi HC sets aside CIC order asking CBDT to give information on Ram Mandir Trust
1 year ago

Delhi HC sets aside CIC order asking CBDT to give information on Ram Mandir Trust

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has set aside an order of the Central Information Commission directing the Central Board of Direct Taxes to provide information relating to Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, looking after the construction and management of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, under the RTI Act. The high court on February 28 allowed the petition by …

CBI not totally exempted from RTI Act: Delhi High Court
1 year, 1 month ago

CBI not totally exempted from RTI Act: Delhi High Court

Hindustan Times  

The Central Bureau of Investigation is not exempt from disclosing information it possesses about corruption and human rights violations under the Right to Information Act, the Delhi high court has said. Section 24 of RTI Act gives intelligence and security agencies such as CBI immunity from the Act, with the proviso that such agencies should disclose information held by them …

Ensure IOs Are Present In Court When Case Is Taken Up For Hearing: Delhi High Court To Commissioner Of Police
1 year, 10 months ago

Ensure IOs Are Present In Court When Case Is Taken Up For Hearing: Delhi High Court To Commissioner Of Police

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court has asked the Commissioner of Delhi Police to ensure that the investigating officers probing a case are present in court when such a case is taken up for hearing. Expressing displeasure over the failure of an investigating officer in answering certain queries put to him by the court, Justice Rajnish Bhatnagar said:“This has become routine invariable …

Supreme Court Dismisses ED’s Challenge To Bail Granted To Former Mumbai Police Commissioner Sanjay Pandey In Phone Tapping Case
1 year, 10 months ago

Supreme Court Dismisses ED’s Challenge To Bail Granted To Former Mumbai Police Commissioner Sanjay Pandey In Phone Tapping Case

Live Law  

The Supreme Court, on Monday, dismissed a plea filed by the Directorate of Enforcement challenging the order of the Delhi High Court granting bail to former Mumbai Police Commissioner Sanjay Pandey in a money laundering case related to the alleged illegal phone tapping of employees by National Stock Exchange.A Bench comprising Justice SK Kaul and Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah found no. …

RAW is exempted under RTI Act unless the issue concerns human rights or corruption: Delhi High Court
1 year, 10 months ago

RAW is exempted under RTI Act unless the issue concerns human rights or corruption: Delhi High Court

The Hindu  

The Delhi High Court has reiterated that unless the nature of information sought relates to human rights or corruption related issues, information on India’s external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing, is not liable to be disclosed. The High Court’s observation came while declining to interfere with an order of the Central Information Commission refusing to supply information relating …

Delhi High Court Seeks Centre’s Response On Pleas Seeking Information Relating To Collegium Recommendations Under RTI Act
1 year, 11 months ago

Delhi High Court Seeks Centre’s Response On Pleas Seeking Information Relating To Collegium Recommendations Under RTI Act

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought response of the Union of India on pleas seeking information in respect of recommendations of the Supreme Court Collegium under Right to Information Act, 2005.Calling it an “important matter”, Justice Prathiba M Singh asked Additional Solicitor General Chetan Sharma to seek appropriate instructions and file an affidavit as the RTI applications relate. The …

Land-for-jobs scam: Tejashwi Yadav to appear before CBI on Mar 25
2 years ago

Land-for-jobs scam: Tejashwi Yadav to appear before CBI on Mar 25

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The CBI on Thursday assured the Delhi High Court it will not arrest Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav this month, after which the politician agreed he will appear before the central probe agency on March 25 for questioning in connection with a case related to the alleged land-for-jobs scam. Justice Dinesh Kumar Sharma recorded the CBI counsel's …

RTI | Delhi High Court To Hear Pleas Seeking Copies Of Documents Relating To Collegium Recommendations On April 12
2 years, 1 month ago

RTI | Delhi High Court To Hear Pleas Seeking Copies Of Documents Relating To Collegium Recommendations On April 12

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court is set to consider the question as to whether information relating to recommendations made by Supreme Court Collegium can be disclosed under Right to Information Act, 2005.Justice Prathiba M Singh listed for hearing on April 12 a batch of three petitions seeking information in respect of Collegium recommendations. The Delhi High Court is set to consider …

Exempted Organisations Can’t Be Asked To Disclose Outcome Of Complaint About Money Laundering, Hawala Transactions Under RTI Act: Delhi High Court
2 years, 1 month ago

Exempted Organisations Can’t Be Asked To Disclose Outcome Of Complaint About Money Laundering, Hawala Transactions Under RTI Act: Delhi High Court

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court has ruled that an exempted intelligence or security organisation under the Right to Information Act, 2005, cannot be asked to disclose the outcome of a complaint which does not relate to corruption or human rights violations. Setting aside a Central Information Commission order directing the CPIO of Central Economic Intelligence Bureau to consider providing outcome of …

Delhi High Court Upholds CIC Order Denying Information To Navy Commander On ACR Marks, Promotion Merit Lists
2 years, 2 months ago

Delhi High Court Upholds CIC Order Denying Information To Navy Commander On ACR Marks, Promotion Merit Lists

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court has observed that information relating to Annual Confidential Reports and senior personnel of Indian Navy would not be liable to be disclosed under the Right to Information Act, 2005. Justice Prathiba M Singh upheld an order passed by Chief Information Commission rejecting an RTI application filed by a commander in the Indian Navy. Upholding the order …

CBI Not Liable To Furnish Information Under RTI Act, Exempted U/S 24: Kerala High Court
2 years, 4 months ago

CBI Not Liable To Furnish Information Under RTI Act, Exempted U/S 24: Kerala High Court

Live Law  

The Kerala High Court recently observed that the Central Bureau of Investigation is not liable to furnish any information sought under the RTI Act, as it is included in the second schedule in contemplation of Section 24 of the RTI Act which exempts certain organisations from the Act.As per Section 24 of the RTI Act, the Act shall not apply …

Delhi High Court Reserves Order In Plea Challenging CIC Order Denying Details Of SC Collegium's December 2018 Meeting
2 years, 11 months ago

Delhi High Court Reserves Order In Plea Challenging CIC Order Denying Details Of SC Collegium's December 2018 Meeting

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court on Monday reserved order in a plea challenging an order of Central Information Commission denying information sought regarding the decisions taken by the Supreme Court Collegium in a meeting held on December 12, 2018.Justice Yashwant Varma reserved the order today after hearing Advocate Prashant Bhushan appearing for the petitioner, activist Anjali Bhardwaj.Bhardwaj. The Delhi High Court …

Plea In Jharkhand High Court Challenges Its RTI Rules Asking Applicants To Provide 'Motive' Behind Seeking Info, Notice Issued
3 years ago

Plea In Jharkhand High Court Challenges Its RTI Rules Asking Applicants To Provide 'Motive' Behind Seeking Info, Notice Issued

Live Law  

The Jharkhand High Court on Tuesday issued a notice on a writ petition challenging certain provisions of the High Court's Right to Information Rules as ultra vires the Central legislation.The matter was heard by a division bench of Chief Justice Ravi Ranjan and Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad, which sought a response from the Registrar General of High Court, directing him …

Delhi HC Upholds CIC Order Denying Information To Husband About Complaints Filed By Estranged Wife Against Previous Husbands
3 years, 6 months ago

Delhi HC Upholds CIC Order Denying Information To Husband About Complaints Filed By Estranged Wife Against Previous Husbands

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court has upheld an order passed by Central Information Commission denying information to a husband about complaints lodged by his estranged wife against her two previous husbands and their family members under the Right to Information Act, 2005. Four RTI applications were filed by the third husband, petitioner in the case, seeking information about the complaints registered …

Public Authority To Give Cogent Reasons For Claiming Exemption From Disclosure Of Information Sought Under The RTI Act: Delhi High Court
4 years, 1 month ago

Public Authority To Give Cogent Reasons For Claiming Exemption From Disclosure Of Information Sought Under The RTI Act: Delhi High Court

Live Law  

Delhi High Court has on Friday observed that when a public authority withholds information under RTI Act, the burden is on the public authority to show in what manner disclosure of such information could impede the investigation. The present petition was filed seeking directions to impugn the order dated 15th January 2018 passed by the Central Information Commission, whereby it …

Delhi High Court Issues Notice On Pleas By 10 Indian Nationals Seeking Quashing Of FIRs Related To Tablighi Jamaat
4 years, 2 months ago

Delhi High Court Issues Notice On Pleas By 10 Indian Nationals Seeking Quashing Of FIRs Related To Tablighi Jamaat

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court has issued notice on a plea seeking the quashing of FIRs related to the Tablighi Jamaat incident against 10 Indian nationals. The court has sought the Delhi government's response on the Section 482 CrPC application. 74/2020 registered under Sections 188, 269, 270, 120-B of the Indian Penal Code,1860.The petitioners state. The petitioners also claimed that a …

Delhi High Court Stays CIC Order Directing Air Force To Disclose RTI Information About Prime Ministers' Entourage On Foreign Trips
4 years, 3 months ago

Delhi High Court Stays CIC Order Directing Air Force To Disclose RTI Information About Prime Ministers' Entourage On Foreign Trips

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court on Friday stayed the operation of the order passed by the Central Information Commission directing the Indian Air Force to divulge under the Right to Information Act information relating to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh's entourage on foreign trips.The stay order passed in a petition filed by the Air Force …

Delhi High Court Reserves Order On Manoj Tiwari's Plea Against Summons In Manish Sisodia's Defamation Case
4 years, 3 months ago

Delhi High Court Reserves Order On Manoj Tiwari's Plea Against Summons In Manish Sisodia's Defamation Case

Live Law  

A Single Judge bench of Justice Anu Malhotra of the Delhi High Court today reserved its order on BJP MP Manoj Tiwari's petition seeking quashing of summons issued against him by a Delhi Court in a criminal defamation case by Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia. The defamation case relates to a complaint filed by Sisodia against BJP leaders — …

Punjab And Haryana High Court Rejects AAP MP Sanjay Singh's Plea To Quash Defamation Case Filed By Bikramjit Singh Majithia
4 years, 3 months ago

Punjab And Haryana High Court Rejects AAP MP Sanjay Singh's Plea To Quash Defamation Case Filed By Bikramjit Singh Majithia

Live Law  

The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday dismissed the plea filed by senior Aam Aaadmi Party leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh seeking to quash the case proceedings and summoning order passed by Ludhiana Magistrate Court against him in the defamation case filed by Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikramjit Singh Majithia. Thereafter, Sanjay Singh filed an application before …

Delhi High Court Seeks CBI's Response On Special Court Order For Further Investigation In A Corruption Case Against Maneka Gandhi
4 years, 4 months ago

Delhi High Court Seeks CBI's Response On Special Court Order For Further Investigation In A Corruption Case Against Maneka Gandhi

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court on Friday issued notice to the CBI on BJP MP Maneka Gandhi's plea challenging a trial court order rejecting its closure report in a graft case against her and two others and directing further investigation in the matter. The then Special Judge CBI at Patiala House Courts while contemplating the said closure report directed for reinvestigation …

[Breaking] Delhi HC Grants Interim Protection From Arrest To Alt News Co-Founder Mohammed Zubair In Plea Seeking Quashing Of FIR [Read Order]
4 years, 6 months ago

[Breaking] Delhi HC Grants Interim Protection From Arrest To Alt News Co-Founder Mohammed Zubair In Plea Seeking Quashing Of FIR [Read Order]

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday granted interim protection from arrest to Co-Founder of Alt News Mohammed Zubair in a plea moved by him seeking quashing of the FIR lodged against him over a tweet made by him in response to a twitter user. A Single Bench of Justice Yogesh Khanna has also directed the Delhi Government and the Deputy …

Public Information Officers Who Mechanically Reject RTI Applications Should Be Shown The Doors, Says Madras HC [Read Order]
4 years, 6 months ago

Public Information Officers Who Mechanically Reject RTI Applications Should Be Shown The Doors, Says Madras HC [Read Order]

Live Law  

Public Information Officers who mechanically reject the RTI Applications should be shown the doors as they are unfit to hold the said post, said the Madras High Court recently.Justice S. Vaidyanathan observed thus while dismissing a writ petition filed by Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission which sought to quash an order passed by Tamil Nadu Information Commission directing it to …

RTI Seeking Details Of Tea Shop Of PM Modi's Father: CIC Directs CPIO Western Railway To File Affidavit Stating That No Records Are Available [Read Order]
4 years, 7 months ago

RTI Seeking Details Of Tea Shop Of PM Modi's Father: CIC Directs CPIO Western Railway To File Affidavit Stating That No Records Are Available [Read Order]

Live Law  

The Central Information Commission disposed a second appeal filed by a lawyer who, through RTI, sought the details about the tea shop of Damodar Das, the father of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Two years ago, Pawan Parik, an RTI Activist and a lawyer practising in Haryana Courts, had filed an RTI application before CPIO, Western Railway, seeking information on eleven points …

Court Rules & RTI : SC Verdict Subverts Right To Information
5 years ago

Court Rules & RTI : SC Verdict Subverts Right To Information

Live Law  

The Supreme Court has recently delivered a judgment in the case Chief Information Commissioner vs High Court Of Gujarat on March 4, 2020. This clearly means that the RTI Act will prevail over all laws and rules, including the Official Secrets Act as far as providing information in RTI is concerned. The Supreme Court judgment does not clearly identify how …

Nothing In RTI Act Empowers CIC To Constitute Any Committee Or Conduct Any Enquiry On Its Behalf : Bombay HC [Read Order]
5 years, 2 months ago

Nothing In RTI Act Empowers CIC To Constitute Any Committee Or Conduct Any Enquiry On Its Behalf : Bombay HC [Read Order]

Live Law  

The Bombay High Court on Monday ruled that nothing in the Right to Information Act, 2005 empowers the State or Central Information Commission to constitute any committee or conduct any enquiry on its behalf and stayed the implementation of an order passed by an Information Commissioner directing the Department of Economic Affairs to conduct an enquiry. Division bench of Justice …

Supreme Court to decide today if CJI comes under RTI Act; Ranjan Gogoi had earlier said institution can't be destroyed in name of transparency
5 years, 4 months ago

Supreme Court to decide today if CJI comes under RTI Act; Ranjan Gogoi had earlier said institution can't be destroyed in name of transparency

Firstpost  

A five-judge constitution bench headed by CJI Ranjan Gogoi will pronounce its verdict after listening to a petition filed against a 2010 judgment of the Delhi High Court New Delhi: The Supreme Court will on Wednesday pronounce the verdict on whether or not the office of Chief Justice of India comes under the ambit of the Right to Information Act. …

Unnao rape case: SC grants 2 more weeks to CBI to complete probe into survivor's accident, asks Delhi HC to take decision at the earliest
5 years, 6 months ago

Unnao rape case: SC grants 2 more weeks to CBI to complete probe into survivor's accident, asks Delhi HC to take decision at the earliest

Firstpost  

The Supreme Court on Friday granted two more weeks to the Central Bureau of Investigation to complete the probe in the accident case which involved the Unnao rape survivor. New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday granted two more weeks to the Central Bureau of Investigation to complete the probe in the accident case which involved the Unnao rape survivor. …

Malegaon 08': CIC Directs Home Ministry To ReplyTo RTI Query Regarding Opinion Given By Law Ministry On Applicability Of MCOCA [Read Order]
5 years, 9 months ago

Malegaon 08': CIC Directs Home Ministry To ReplyTo RTI Query Regarding Opinion Given By Law Ministry On Applicability Of MCOCA [Read Order]

Live Law  

The Chief Information Commissioner Sudhir Bhargava directed the Ministry of Home Affairs to provide an appropriate reply to an RTI query seeking a copy of the opinion given by Ministry of Law and Justice regarding the applicability of Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act, 1999 on the 2008 Malegaon Bomb blast case. The said opinion was sought by the National …

Death Row Convict Seeks IB Report To Prove Innocence, Delhi HC Asks CIC To Reconsider Order Of Denial [Read Judgment]
6 years, 2 months ago

Death Row Convict Seeks IB Report To Prove Innocence, Delhi HC Asks CIC To Reconsider Order Of Denial [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

As a death row convict in the 7/11 Mumbai train serial bombings seeks under the RTI Act a copy of an Intelligence Bureau report submitted to the Home Ministry in order to prove his wrongful prosecution, the Delhi High Court has held that his RTI plea pertains to human rights violation and directed the Central Information Commission to reconsider its …

Convict in Mumbai 2006 train blast seeks IB report calling for review of evidence under RTI Act; Delhi HC reserves order
6 years, 6 months ago

Convict in Mumbai 2006 train blast seeks IB report calling for review of evidence under RTI Act; Delhi HC reserves order

Firstpost  

The convict needed the IB report which purportedly called for review of the evidence in the 2006 Mumbai train blasts case. New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday reserved its decision on a plea by one of the convicts in the 2006 Mumbai train bombings seeking a 2009 Intelligence Bureau report which purportedly called for review of evidence in …

CBI Can’t Claim Absolute Exemption From RTI Act: Delhi HC [Read Order]
7 years, 6 months ago

CBI Can’t Claim Absolute Exemption From RTI Act: Delhi HC [Read Order]

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court has directed the CBI to consider the application of an RTI activist seeking information about corruption within the central investigating body and action taken into allegations made by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of shady probe into the coalgate scam pursuant to a news report.The Agency claimed that it is included in the second schedule to …

CBI cannot claim absolute exemption from RTI Act: Delhi HC
7 years, 6 months ago

CBI cannot claim absolute exemption from RTI Act: Delhi HC

India TV News  

CBI cannot claim absolute exemption from RTI Act: Delhi HC Delhi High Court held that CBI cannot claim absolute exemption from disclosing information pertaining to allegations of corruption and human rights violations held by it under the RTI Act. The CBI cannot claim absolute exemption from disclosing information pertaining to allegations of corruption and human rights violations held by it …

CBI not exempt from disclosing information under RTI Act: Delhi HC
7 years, 6 months ago

CBI not exempt from disclosing information under RTI Act: Delhi HC

Firstpost  

The CBI cannot claim absolute exemption from disclosing information pertaining to allegations of corruption and human rights violations held by it under the RTI Act New Delhi: The CBI cannot claim absolute exemption from disclosing information pertaining to allegations of corruption and human rights violations held by it under the RTI Act, the Delhi High Court has held. The Act …

Delhi HC Upholds CIC Order, Says IB Liable To Share Report On Whistleblower IFS Officer [Read Judgment]
7 years, 6 months ago

Delhi HC Upholds CIC Order, Says IB Liable To Share Report On Whistleblower IFS Officer [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

In a major relief to whistleblower IFS officer Sanjiv Chaturvedi, the Delhi High Court has upheld the order of the Central Information Commission directing the Intelligence Bureau and the Ministry of Environment and Forests to share with him a copy of the IB report on his harassment and implication in various cases for pointing out corrupt practices during his tenure …

Delhi HC Upholds CIC Order, Says IB Liable To Share Report On Whistleblower IFS Officer [Read Judgment]
7 years, 6 months ago

Delhi HC Upholds CIC Order, Says IB Liable To Share Report On Whistleblower IFS Officer [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

In a major relief to whistleblower IFS officer Sanjiv Chaturvedi, the Delhi High Court has upheld the order of the Central Information Commission directing the Intelligence Bureau and the Ministry of Environment and Forests to share with him a copy of the IB report on his harassment and implication in various cases for pointing out corrupt practices during his tenure …

Seven Important Lessons on RTI from Delhi High Court
8 years, 9 months ago

Seven Important Lessons on RTI from Delhi High Court

Live Law  

Delhi High Court on 24th May 2016, has criticised the Legislative Department for filing un unnecessary Writ Petition against the Order of Central Information Commission directing the Government to update and upload all the latest amended bare Acts, to examine the functionality of its e-mail ID and develop an appropriate RTI filing mechanism. HC said: “In fact, as rightly pointed …

Seven Important Lessons on RTI from Delhi High Court
8 years, 9 months ago

Seven Important Lessons on RTI from Delhi High Court

Live Law  

Delhi High Court on 24th May 2016, has criticised the Legislative Department for filing un unnecessary Writ Petition against the Order of Central Information Commission directing the Government to update and upload all the latest amended bare Acts, to examine the functionality of its e-mail ID and develop an appropriate RTI filing mechanism. HC said: “In fact, as rightly pointed …

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