Hearing Gujarat University plea, HC said plea such as Arvind Kejriwal's, when he himself was a respondent before the CIC, makes 'mockery of intent and purpose of RTI Act'.
A bench headed by CJI Bobde warned of contempt action if the Centre and states didn't comply a second time. The top court had ordered the vacancies to be filled in February.
According to an RTI reply, home ministry says no member of police force has right to form any association without the 'express sanction' of the central govt.
The Supreme Court asked the Centre and states to file their status report after RTI activists Anjali Bhardwaj and others submitted that earlier court orders were not complied with.
Activists have called the government's notification on the new rules an assault to the independence and autonomy of the Central Information Commission.
The CIC made the observation while deciding on a 2017 RTI query which sought details of those named in the Panama Papers, the action taken and the officers involved.
What made him ‘Akbar the Great’ was not the might of his armies alone, but the political architecture he built to sustain power over a subcontinent teeming with diversity.
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