Deccan
Chronicle: Hyderabad: Thursday, 18 December 2014.
Justice Nooty
Ramamohana Rao of the Hyderabad High Court on Wednesday suspended an order of
the AP state information commissioner directing the public information officer
of the High Court to furnish the information relating to judicial officers.
The state information
commissioner on October 22, 2014, passed an order in an appeal by N.
Purushotham Reddy, president of High Court Telangana Employees Association
challenging the refusal of his application under the RTI Act by the information
officer of the HC.
The appellant
had sought the list of total number of sanctioned posts of district judges to
each district and list of officers working in the category of district judges,
senior civil judges and junior civil judges, their names and native district.
Aggrieved by
the order Registrar (Vigilance) of the HC moved a plea contending that the
information sought by the association president is neither related to the
employees association nor is there any larger public interest involved in it
and as such the information cannot be supplied to the applicant as it pertains
to a third party.
While
admitting the plea, Justice Ramamohana Rao granted interim suspension of the
order and posted the matter after four weeks.