Re: [humanrightsactivist] HC quashes UP govt notifications on RTI Act

For the updation of all RTI Activist, it is submitted that this first notification came into being while Janadhikar Activist Ajay dixit sought information relating to Civil Aviation Department UP after pendency of IInd Appeal in UP Information Commission. People do not understand that as to why this notification was not challenged included by Sandip Pandey Ji while challeging the IInd notification of UP Govt. even after getting copies of the same by one renowned journalist?

But we all are thankful to Advocate Amrendra Tripathi, renowned journalist Arvind Shukla and renowned human rights Activist Ashok Shankram for this social cause.

JANADHIKAR request all to thank above activist.
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HC quashes UP govt notifications on RTI Act
PTI | 10:01 PM,Jan 25,2012
Lucknow, Jan 25 (PTI) The Allahabad High Court today quashed two notifications by Uttar Pradesh government which excluded confidential section under Home and Civil Aviation departments from the purview of RTI Act, saying restrictions imposed were excessive and beyond the powers of the state. The order was passed by a Lucknow bench comprising justices Pradeep Kant and Decvendra Kumar Upadhyaya while allowing two Public Interest Litigations challenging the notifications issued by the state government. On June 7 2009, a notification was issued excluding certain works alloted to conidential sections of the state government from the purview of RTI Act. Prior to this, one more notification was issued on March 25, 2008 which specified that the operation unit, the maintenance, security and general administration unit of the civil aviation department of the state were excluded from the applicability of the RTI Act. The court in its order observed that the
RTI is part and parcel of the right to freedom of speech and ex-pression as contained in the Constitution. Further the RTI Act gives statutory safeguard to the freedom of speech and ex-pression guaranteed in the Constitution, which cannot be curtailed except with resonable restrictions, it said. The court said that therefore restrictions imposed were excessive and beyond the powers of the state, which cannot be done by issuance of the impugned notifications. "For the aforesaid reason petitions are allowed and both the notifications being invalid or hereby quashed," it said

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