{"id":316639,"date":"2019-11-13T09:57:56","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T09:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=316639"},"modified":"2019-11-13T09:57:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T09:57:56","slug":"cjis-office-comes-under-rti-act-says-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/cjis-office-comes-under-rti-act-says-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"CJI\u2019s office comes under RTI Act, says Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-308382 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/gogoi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"588\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/gogoi.jpg 588w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/gogoi-300x177.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\" \/>The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that the Chief Justice of India\u2019s office comes under the transparency law, the Right to Information (RTI) Act.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Transparency doesn\u2019t undermine judicial independence,&#8221; Supreme Court said in a unanimous judgement upholding the Delhi High Court&#8217;s ruling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The verdict was announced by a\u00a0five-judge Constitution bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The other members of the bench included Justices N V Ramana, D Y Chandrachud, Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The bench\u00a0had on April 4 reserved its order on the appeals filed in 2010 by the Supreme Court secretary general and its central public information officer against the high court and the central information commission&#8217;s (CIC&#8217;s) orders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In 2010, the Delhi High Court had held that the office of the Chief Justice of India comes within the ambit of the RTI law, saying judicial independence was not a judge&#8217;s privilege but a responsibility cast upon him.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that the Chief Justice of India\u2019s office comes under the transparency law, the Right to Information (RTI) Act. &#8220;Transparency doesn\u2019t undermine judicial independence,&#8221; Supreme Court said in a unanimous judgement upholding the Delhi High Court&#8217;s ruling. The verdict was announced by a\u00a0five-judge Constitution bench of the apex court headed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":308382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[1632,3543,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316640,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316639\/revisions\/316640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}