CUTTACK: The Orissa High Court has held that the state information commissioners are not entitled to pension. The court said, “In the absence of any rule that explicitly recognises the entitlement of state information commissioners to receive pension, there can be no legal right for them to claim such benefits.” The ruling came in the case of former information commissioner …
The Supreme Court on December 16 directed the Centre and States to appoint within three months information commissioners in the Central Information Commission and State Information Commissions and said there was a need to evolve guidelines to stop misuse of the Right to Information Act. A Bench headed by Chief Justice S.A. Bobde took note of the submissions of lawyer …
