Chief information commissioner Wajahat Habibullah is likely to meet the Delhi HC chief justice to convey that such orders were hampering citizen's rights to seek information.
In the backdrop of some of its decisions being stayed in the court, chief information commissioner Wajahat Habibullah is likely to meet the Delhi High Court chief justice to convey that such orders were hampering citizen's rights to seek information.
The decision to undertake such a visit was taken during an internal meeting of the commissioners at the Central Information Commission where the issue of writ petitions being pending in the Delhi High Court were discussed.
"Commission suggested that Habibullah may like to pay a visit to chief justice of Delhi High Court and present before him the concern," minutes of the meeting said.
The meeting was called after the CIC found that public authorities appeal in the High Court and get stay to certain orders passed by the Commission. The CIC said the High Court stay delays the information seeking process.
"The Enforcement Directorate managed to get a stay from the Delhi High Court while the proceedings were on at CIC. This was just one of the many cases which are lingering in Courts across India," the official said.
The case relates to oil-for-food scam in which one RTI applicant sought a document in this regard, held by Enforcement Directorate - an organisation excluded from RTI Act.
The ED refused to give the documents related to the enquiry even to the CIC and got a stay from the Delhi HC in this regard.
The Commissioners expressed concern that the pending cases, were hampering the citizens right to get information from government and other public authorities.
"In the absence of final orders in these cases citizens are not getting any information from the Public Authorities which have challanged the decisions of the Commission on their status as such," the minutes of the meeting reveal.
"Keeping this in view, mention to this effect in the form of a prayer for an early hearing be considered for submission to the High Court of Delhi," the information commissioners said during the meeting.
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