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CIC asks apex court for information on judges' elevation
November 25th, 2009 - 8:55 pm ICT by IANS
Central Information Commission (CIC) has asked the Supreme Court to
reveal information about the elevation of three high court chief
justices to the apex court superseding the seniority of three others.
The action came on a Right to Information (RTI) application of
activist Subhash Chandra Agrawal, who sought to know how were Justice
H.L. Dattu, Justice A.K. Ganguly and Justice R.M. Lodha elevated and
appointed to the Supreme Court, superseding Justice A.P. Shah, Justice
A.K. Patnaik and Justice V.K. Gupta.
Supreme Court judges are selected by a collegium of the five senior
most judges of the apex court headed by the Chief Justice of India.
However, the court refused to entertain Agrawal's plea, saying that
the information sought is "neither maintained nor available" with it.
The applicant approached the first appellate authority, which also
denied him the information. Agrawal then approached the CIC.
Stating that the "appointment of justices is decidedly a public
activity conducted in the overriding public interest", Chief
Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah in his Nov 24 order said:
"The information sought by appellant will now be provided to him
within 15 working days".
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