AHMEDABAD: Eleven years after a attorney sought details underneath the Right to Information Act from the Gujarat top courtroom, the HC directed its public knowledge officer (PIO) to furnish the details to the applicant.
While directing the PIO to offer the information to the attorney underneath RTE regulations, Justice A J Desai dismissed the petition filed by the top courtroom itself, during which it had challenged the directions issued to the HC by the Gujarat Information Commission, for furnishing the required knowledge to the attorney.
According to the commission's suggest, Shivang Shukla, an suggest, Kamlesh Bhavsar, had in 2007 sought knowledge regarding appointment of judges to the Gujarat judiciary since 1990. The PIO provided knowledge regarding corruption charges against judicial officers and about their convictions throughout the cut-off date.
However, the PIO refused to offer knowledge on Bhavsar's request to furnish the names of the entire judges - from the rank of judicial Justice of the Peace firstclass in the decrease courts to the justices of the top courtroom - appointed between 1990 and 2007. The PIO advised the attorney that he has asked for the information from the branches involved and collating the details would take more time. He mentioned he would offer details about the appointments as and when he were given the details.
On the PIO's refusal to phase with the information on the identical time, bringing up the delay in collating the details, Bhavsar filed an enchantment earlier than the state knowledge commission, looking for a answer from the HC PIO about the applicant's criticism. In reply to commission's query, the HC's PIO defined his place and despatched the details that have been collated to the commission, for it to offer to the attorney. The PIO despatched the information to the commission and requested it to offer the details to suggest Bhavsar, if it thought it fit.
The commission ordered the HC PIO to offer the information to the attorney. This did not go down neatly with the HC government and the registry challenged the commission's order on the judicial aspect in 2011. The HC remaining week dismissed its personal petition.
While directing the PIO to offer the information to the attorney underneath RTE regulations, Justice A J Desai dismissed the petition filed by the top courtroom itself, during which it had challenged the directions issued to the HC by the Gujarat Information Commission, for furnishing the required knowledge to the attorney.
According to the commission's suggest, Shivang Shukla, an suggest, Kamlesh Bhavsar, had in 2007 sought knowledge regarding appointment of judges to the Gujarat judiciary since 1990. The PIO provided knowledge regarding corruption charges against judicial officers and about their convictions throughout the cut-off date.
However, the PIO refused to offer knowledge on Bhavsar's request to furnish the names of the entire judges - from the rank of judicial Justice of the Peace firstclass in the decrease courts to the justices of the top courtroom - appointed between 1990 and 2007. The PIO advised the attorney that he has asked for the information from the branches involved and collating the details would take more time. He mentioned he would offer details about the appointments as and when he were given the details.
On the PIO's refusal to phase with the information on the identical time, bringing up the delay in collating the details, Bhavsar filed an enchantment earlier than the state knowledge commission, looking for a answer from the HC PIO about the applicant's criticism. In reply to commission's query, the HC's PIO defined his place and despatched the details that have been collated to the commission, for it to offer to the attorney. The PIO despatched the information to the commission and requested it to offer the details to suggest Bhavsar, if it thought it fit.
The commission ordered the HC PIO to offer the information to the attorney. This did not go down neatly with the HC government and the registry challenged the commission's order on the judicial aspect in 2011. The HC remaining week dismissed its personal petition.
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