News X: New Delhi: Wednesday, February 22, 2017.
The Delhi
High Court on Tuesday stayed a Central Information Commission (CIC) direction
to the CBSE to allow the inspection of Class 10 and 12 school records of Union
Minister Smriti Irani.
Rejecting the
contention of Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) that the said
information was “personal”, the CIC had on January 17 asked the educational
body to facilitate the inspection of relevant records and provide certified
copies of the documents to RTI applicant Mohammad Naushaduddin.
Justice
Sanjeev Sachdeva, while hearing the plea filed by the CBSE against the CIC
order, also issued notice to Naushaduddin and fixed April 27 for next hearing
in the matter.
The CIC had
rejected the CBSE’s contentions that the school records of Irani cannot be
disclosed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act as it was third-party
information held in fiduciary capacity.
The
commission had also directed the office of the Union Minister of Textiles and
the Holy Child Auxilium School, Delhi, from where she claimed to have passed
out, to provide the roll number or reference number of Smriti Zubin Irani to
CBSE, Ajmer, which possesses the records for years 1991 and 1993 to “facilitate
search from huge records which is yet to be digitised”.