‘Secy appointment can’t be disclosed under RTI’
Information pertaining to appointment of top bureaucrats cannot be revealed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, the Delhi high court has said.
The court dismissed the RTI activist and Magsaysay Award winner Arvind Kejriwal’s plea seeking disclosure of information on the ground that people had the right to know as to what was the grade assigned to an officer who was empanelled.
The court also set aside the order of the Central Information Commission (CIC) which had held that information relating to appointment of secretaries in different ministries falls within the ambit of the transparency law.
Justice S. Muralidhar said, “This court holds that the CIC was not justified in overruling the objection of the Centre and directing the government and the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) to provide copies of the documents as sought by Kejriwal.”
Earlier the CIC dismissed the contention of the Centre that the disclosure would amount to revealing details of an officer and had directed the DoPT and the Cabinet Secretariat to disclose details pertaining to selection of officers for the post of secretaries and additional secretaries.
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