Economic
Times: New Delhi: Friday, 05 September 2014.
The
government has disclosed confidential file notings related to setting up of
Justice Mukul Mudgal panel that probed alleged lobbying activities by retail
major Walmart in India.
The Ministry
of Corporate Affairs, which had set up the one-man committee during the previous
UPA regime, released the file notings following a direction from the Central
Information Commission (CIC).
Earlier, CIC
had directed the Centre to disclose the notings as well as make public the
committee's report along with the steps taken by the Centre to prevent possible
lobbying in the country by foreign companies.
The
one-member committee headed by Mudgal, former chief justice of Punjab and
Haryana High Court, had probed whether Walmart undertook activities in India in
contravention of any Indian law and any other matter relevant or incidental to
the case.
The case came
before the CIC on a plea by activistSubhash Agrawal, who had sought the
information from the Ministry, which had refused to provide it.
"Information
needs to be provided under Section 8(2) of RTI Act which mentions providing of
information if public interest overweighs the harm protected."
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