Indian Express: Hyderabad: Thursday, August 10, 2017.
A division
bench of Hyderabad High Court on Tuesday wanted the AP and TS to take steps to
constitute state information commissions and make appointments of the posts of
Information commissioners under the Right to Information Act. It fixed six
weeks time for the purpose. The bench of Acting Chief Justice Ramesh
Ranganathan and Justice J Uma Devi was dealing with a PIL filed by Forum for
Good Governance. Petitioner’s counsel B Rachna Reddy said that whole RTI Act
has become redundant as the commission is not functioning and both state
governments are not responding to the issue. Telangana advocate general D
Prakash Reddy told the bench that state government is ready to fill the posts
and constitute the commission within six weeks. The bench then asked the AP
state also to fill the posts within six weeks and report back to the court.
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