Latest laws Helping good people to do good things.August 5,2017:
Office of the CJI and Governor are not recorded as public authority.
Office of the Chief Justice of India and Governor are not covered under Right to Information (RTI) Act, stated the Government.
RTI Act empowers a citizen to seek time bound response on the governance-related query from a public authority or a government department.
“The office of Chief Justice of India and Governor are not recorded as the public authority on records of the Central Information Commission,” Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh submitted in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.
Earlier, a month ago Apex Court Bench comprising of Justice Arun Mishra and Justice Amitava Roy had expounded that the offices of all the constitutional functionaries should be made amenable to RTI law to bring the accountability & transparency in their functioning.
Supreme Court had specifically pointed out that offices of Governors and CJI should be brought under ambit of the RTI Act.
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