Tuesday, April 16, 2013

MISC. BENCH No. - 2709 of 2013 Order Date :- 15.4.2013

Chief Justice's Court
Case :-
MISC. BENCH No. - 2709 of 2013
Petitioner :-
Suo-Motu In The Matter Of U.P. State Information
Commission
Respondent :-
State Of U.P. Thru. Secretary (Appointment)
[P.I.L.]
Petitioner Counsel :-
Suo Motu
Respondent Counsel :-
C.S.C.
Hon'ble Shiva Kirti Singh,Chief Justice
Hon'ble Devendra Kumar Arora,J.
Heard learned counsel for the State in this public interest litigation.
This public interest litigation is a result of suo-motu cognizance
taken by this Court of certain facts reported in a Newspaper dated
22nd March, 2013 disclosing as many as eight vacancies out of ten
posts of Information Commissioner in the State of Uttar Pradesh.
A counter affidavit has been brought on record on behalf of the
State of U.P. to explain as to why such a situation has arisen.
According to the counter affidavit certain provisions of the Right
to Information Act, 2005, a Central Act (hereinafter referred to as
'Act') were under challenge before the Apex Court in the case of
Namit Sharma vs. Union of India
and the Apex Court by its
judgement dated 13th September, 2012, reported in (2013) 1 SCC
745, issued a number of directions in order to make the Act
constitutionally valid as well as workable.

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