the report seems entirely fictional. I never noticed it, nor was any such notice served on me. My resignation and its withdrawal were totalluy unrelated to this supposed notice
Wajahat
----- Original Message -----
From: sroy1947 <sroy1947@gmail.com>
Date: Saturday, October 30, 2010 8:56 am
Subject: [RTI INDIA] Re: Fwd: [HumJanenge] Former CIC challenges notice by CIC
To: "RTI India : Right to Information, CIC" <rti_india@googlegroups.com>
> Dear Sir
>
> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/RTI-Act-being-used-to-
> dislodge-CIC-himself/articleshow/5410903.cms
>
> "Habibullah's woes
> After serving as CIC for four years, Habibullah tendered his
> resignation on October 20, 2009 in order to become chief State
> Information Commissioner of J & K. He would have been the first to
> hold this post.
>
> However, on December 4, 2009, the Supreme Court served him a contempt
> notice for publishing on the CIC website a detailed reasoned order
> concerning the need for transparency in the elevation of high court
> judges to the SC. The SC said the order lowered the dignity of the
> court. "
>
> The RTI request has been filed by another member of this group Mr
> S.Umapathi of Bangaore, who if you recall, was himself served a
> contempt notice by the law officer of CIC for "misbehaving"
> during a
> Videoconference before Mr Tiwari, and which caused considerable
> discussion on thesegroups.
>
> Incidentally, I have also been sent a third party notice by CIC in
> this matter as Mr Umapathi has requested copies of my
> involvement in
> this matter.
>
> Other reports in the media have said
>
> "New Delhi: The Chief Information Commissioner of India Wajahat
> Habibullah has consented to withdraw his resignation from the office
> to the President of India. Wajahat Habibullah, who had resigned
> as the
> ChiefInformation Commissioner of India, on 20th Oct 2009 was supposed
> to take up his new assignment as the watchdog to the Right To
> Information in Jammu and Kashmir on Oct 26.
>
> According to informed sources the development was consequent to the
> criminal notice issued today by the Supreme Court of India in a
> contempt of court motion filed against Shri Habibullah by the
> Solicitor General of India citing 2 recent decisions of the
> CentralInformation Commission ordering the court's Public Information
> Officer to disclose cerrtain information pertaining to the recent
> appointment of some judges of the court. If Habibullah had taken up
> his new assignment in J&K he would have had to defend the case
> in his
> personal capacity.
>
> The Union of India has alleged that the publication on the CIC's
> website of these controversial decisions containing scandalous
> pleadings of the appellant has tended to lower the dignity of the
> Court and interfere in the administration of justice by
> busybodies in
> collaboration with the CentralInformation Commission."
>
> and another one
>
> "THE SUPREME Court on Friday (December 4), issued notice to India's
> Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah on a criminal
> contempt petition filed by the Union of India and mentioned by
> attorney general GE Vahanavati.
>
> The petition alleges that publication of two controversial decisions
> on the website of the Central Information Commission lowers the
> dignity of the court and interferes in the administration of justice.
> The petition also alleges that the two CIC decisions were in fact
> written by Prashanth Bhushan advocate for the appellant one Subhash
> Chandra Agrawal.
>
> The contempt petition goes on to state that the appellant Subhash
> Chandra Agrawal is a professional information seeker fronting
> for a
> coterie of Supreme Court advocates styled as 'Committee for Judicial
> Accountability' seeking to promote a few candidates for
> judgeship and
> the CIC is collaborating with busybodies bent on tarnishing the
> court's image.
>
> Habibullah has now decided to stay on as chief information
> commissioner to answer these charges levied against him in his
> personal capacity.
>
> The Supreme Court had decided to take the unusual step of
> staying the
> CIC's orders directed against it for the reason that Agrawal's right
> to information (RTI) appeal had raised queries concerning the passing
> over of Chief Justice AP Shah of the Delhi High Court who is himself
> hearing a previous matter of Agrawal's in the Delhi High Court versus
> the apex court."
>
> Sarbajit
>
> On Oct 30, 4:03 am, wajahat <whabibul...@nic.in> wrote:
> > But I never did receive such a notice. Which case is
> thgis supposed to have been in?
> > Wajahat
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "S.D. Sharma" <anonsha...@yahoo.com>
> > Date: Friday, October 29, 2010 10:01 pm
> > Subject: [RTI INDIA] Fwd: [HumJanenge] Former CIC challenges
> notice by CIC
> > To: rti_in...@yahoogroups.com, rti_india@googlegroups.com
> >
> > >http://groups.google.com/group/HumJanenge/t/437ef2701387b393
> >
> > > Reliable sources, who decline to be quoted, inform that
> former Chief
> > > Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah has refused to part
> > > with a
> > > copy of the contempt notice served on him by the Supreme
> Court of
> > > India in December 2009. The information had been requested
> under RTI
> > > by a citizen from Bengaluru S Umapathi on 7th September 2010
> > > when Mr
> > > Habibullah was the Chief Commissioner. When Mr Habibullah
> > > refused to
> > > divulge the contempt notice to the PIO of the Commission, he was
> > > served a third party notice immediately after he demitted
> > > office. It
> > > is now reported that Mr Habibullah has denied that any such
> contempt> > notice, as widely reported in the media, was ever served
> > > formally on
> > > him.
----- Original Message -----
From: sroy1947 <sroy1947@gmail.com>
Date: Saturday, October 30, 2010 8:56 am
Subject: [RTI INDIA] Re: Fwd: [HumJanenge] Former CIC challenges notice by CIC
To: "RTI India : Right to Information, CIC" <rti_india@googlegroups.com>
> Dear Sir
>
> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/RTI-Act-being-used-to-
> dislodge-CIC-himself/articleshow/5410903.cms
>
> "Habibullah's woes
> After serving as CIC for four years, Habibullah tendered his
> resignation on October 20, 2009 in order to become chief State
> Information Commissioner of J & K. He would have been the first to
> hold this post.
>
> However, on December 4, 2009, the Supreme Court served him a contempt
> notice for publishing on the CIC website a detailed reasoned order
> concerning the need for transparency in the elevation of high court
> judges to the SC. The SC said the order lowered the dignity of the
> court. "
>
> The RTI request has been filed by another member of this group Mr
> S.Umapathi of Bangaore, who if you recall, was himself served a
> contempt notice by the law officer of CIC for "misbehaving"
> during a
> Videoconference before Mr Tiwari, and which caused considerable
> discussion on thesegroups.
>
> Incidentally, I have also been sent a third party notice by CIC in
> this matter as Mr Umapathi has requested copies of my
> involvement in
> this matter.
>
> Other reports in the media have said
>
> "New Delhi: The Chief Information Commissioner of India Wajahat
> Habibullah has consented to withdraw his resignation from the office
> to the President of India. Wajahat Habibullah, who had resigned
> as the
> ChiefInformation Commissioner of India, on 20th Oct 2009 was supposed
> to take up his new assignment as the watchdog to the Right To
> Information in Jammu and Kashmir on Oct 26.
>
> According to informed sources the development was consequent to the
> criminal notice issued today by the Supreme Court of India in a
> contempt of court motion filed against Shri Habibullah by the
> Solicitor General of India citing 2 recent decisions of the
> CentralInformation Commission ordering the court's Public Information
> Officer to disclose cerrtain information pertaining to the recent
> appointment of some judges of the court. If Habibullah had taken up
> his new assignment in J&K he would have had to defend the case
> in his
> personal capacity.
>
> The Union of India has alleged that the publication on the CIC's
> website of these controversial decisions containing scandalous
> pleadings of the appellant has tended to lower the dignity of the
> Court and interfere in the administration of justice by
> busybodies in
> collaboration with the CentralInformation Commission."
>
> and another one
>
> "THE SUPREME Court on Friday (December 4), issued notice to India's
> Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah on a criminal
> contempt petition filed by the Union of India and mentioned by
> attorney general GE Vahanavati.
>
> The petition alleges that publication of two controversial decisions
> on the website of the Central Information Commission lowers the
> dignity of the court and interferes in the administration of justice.
> The petition also alleges that the two CIC decisions were in fact
> written by Prashanth Bhushan advocate for the appellant one Subhash
> Chandra Agrawal.
>
> The contempt petition goes on to state that the appellant Subhash
> Chandra Agrawal is a professional information seeker fronting
> for a
> coterie of Supreme Court advocates styled as 'Committee for Judicial
> Accountability' seeking to promote a few candidates for
> judgeship and
> the CIC is collaborating with busybodies bent on tarnishing the
> court's image.
>
> Habibullah has now decided to stay on as chief information
> commissioner to answer these charges levied against him in his
> personal capacity.
>
> The Supreme Court had decided to take the unusual step of
> staying the
> CIC's orders directed against it for the reason that Agrawal's right
> to information (RTI) appeal had raised queries concerning the passing
> over of Chief Justice AP Shah of the Delhi High Court who is himself
> hearing a previous matter of Agrawal's in the Delhi High Court versus
> the apex court."
>
> Sarbajit
>
> On Oct 30, 4:03 am, wajahat <whabibul...@nic.in> wrote:
> > But I never did receive such a notice. Which case is
> thgis supposed to have been in?
> > Wajahat
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "S.D. Sharma" <anonsha...@yahoo.com>
> > Date: Friday, October 29, 2010 10:01 pm
> > Subject: [RTI INDIA] Fwd: [HumJanenge] Former CIC challenges
> notice by CIC
> > To: rti_in...@yahoogroups.com, rti_india@googlegroups.com
> >
> > >http://groups.google.com/group/HumJanenge/t/437ef2701387b393
> >
> > > Reliable sources, who decline to be quoted, inform that
> former Chief
> > > Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah has refused to part
> > > with a
> > > copy of the contempt notice served on him by the Supreme
> Court of
> > > India in December 2009. The information had been requested
> under RTI
> > > by a citizen from Bengaluru S Umapathi on 7th September 2010
> > > when Mr
> > > Habibullah was the Chief Commissioner. When Mr Habibullah
> > > refused to
> > > divulge the contempt notice to the PIO of the Commission, he was
> > > served a third party notice immediately after he demitted
> > > office. It
> > > is now reported that Mr Habibullah has denied that any such
> contempt> > notice, as widely reported in the media, was ever served
> > > formally on
> > > him.
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