Chief Justice's Court Case :- MISC. BENCH No. - 2709 of 2013 Petitioner :- Suo-Motu In The Matter Of U.P. State Information Commission Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Secretary (Appointment) [P.I.L.] Petitioner Counsel :- Suo Motu Respondent Counsel :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Shiva Kirti Singh,Chief Justice Hon'ble Devendra Kumar Arora,J. Heard learned counsel for the State in this public interest litigation. This public interest litigation is a result of suo-motu cognizance taken by this Court of certain facts reported in a Newspaper dated 22nd March, 2013 disclosing as many as eight vacancies out of ten posts of Information Commissioner in the State of Uttar Pradesh. A counter affidavit has been brought on record on behalf of the State of U.P. to explain as to why such a situation has arisen. According to the counter affidavit certain provisions of the Right to Information Act, 2005, a Central Act (hereinafter referred to as 'Act') were under challenge before the Apex Court in the case of Namit Sharma vs. Union of India and the Apex Court by its judgement dated 13th September, 2012, reported in (2013) 1 SCC 745, issued a number of directions in order to make the Act constitutionally valid as well as workable. read full order at given weblink http://upcpri.blogspot.in/2013/04/misc-bench-no-2709-of-2013-order-date.html |
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