Times of India: Ahmedabad: Wednesday, May 24, 2017.
In a weird
request under the Right to Information Act (RTI), a lawyer has asked for
details about the intelligence quotient (IQ) of a sitting judge at the city
sessions court.
Annoyed at
the judge's courtroom behaviour and style of judicial functioning, an advocate
practising at the city sessions court, Anand Brahmbhatt, filed an application
under the information law asking the court registrar and principal sessions
judge to furnish information about the judge's IQ and whether his IQ is 'zero'
or in the negative.
Brahmbhatt's
application reads, "If the above mentioned judge has taken any competitive
exam in which the IQ was judged, whether he was allowed to take any such
examination, and give specific information on whether his IQ was zero or in
negative."
Casting
aspersions on the judicial officer's efficiency, the applicant sought details
on whether the Gujarat high court got the judge medically examined to know his
"mental status" and sought details on whether the judge was diagnosed
with mental illness at such an examination.
The
application, which was accepted by the city civil court's correspondence
department on Monday, raised many questions about the judicial officer's
academic career.
The applicant
asked which years the judge had cleared his board exams in, graduated and
obtained his law degree. The lawyer also requested information about trials
undertaken and years spent by the judge in clearing these exams.
The applicant
lawyer also asked if there is a complaint pending against the judge before the
high court and for information about it. Other details sought were about the
judge's verdicts, his assets etc.
In his
application, the lawyer says he is seeking the information as a common citizen
and if the authorities are reluctant to part with the details, they should deny
the request by citing rules/sections of the law, and not just casually deny the
information.
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