The Central Commission in its bi-monthly meeting Tuesday has decided
to approach the Supreme Court of India, as first reported by this
correspondent, against the judgement of the Delhi High Court striking
down its powers to frame regulations for its internal management.
Inside sources say that in the current political scenario an ordinance
to get around the CIC's problem was not feasible or a priority.
On 5/30/10, Raminder Singh <ramisingh.bbc@gmail.com> wrote:
> The DoPT is unwilling to vary its settled position on constitution of CIC
> Benches
> without amendments to the RTI Act 2005. This was informally communicated
> in advance to the Secretary of the CIC on Friday. The legal opinion
> obtained
> from the Department of Legal Affairs was also conveyed to him.
>
> The impasse caused by the recent order of Delhi High Court which went into
> the
> issue of the CIC's functioning is expected to be discussed during the CIC's
> monthly meeting on 2nd June, who are expected to recommend that an
> ordinance
> be issued to get around the situation where deciding RTI appeals is
> construed
> as contempt of the Court. Several Information Commissioners have already
> expressed their concern with the judgement and its consequences. Prof M M
> Ansari
> the senior-most Information Commissioner had also aired his personal view
> that there is no option now except to amend the law and preserve the
> statutory
> autonomy of the Information Commissions against interference from the
> Courts
>
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