Times
of India: Madurai: Friday, 10 April 2015.
A petition
has been filed in the Madurai bench of the Madras high court seeking its
intervention to get information under the RTI Act on the appointment of 23 district
judges in Tamil Nadu.
In his
petition, Madurai-based K Kathiresan said he submitted an application to the
Madras high court registrar (administration), who is the public information
officer (PIO), on November 25 last year seeking the copies of application forms
and police verification reports of the 23 district judges (entry level) who
were appointed in 2013.
However,
information had not been provided to him even though he had followed the right
appeal process before the first and second appellate authority, the petitioner
said.
When the
matter came up for admission before the division bench of justices S Manikumar
and G Chockalingam on Thursday, petitioner's counsel W Peter Rameshkumar said
the PIO was liable to pay Rs 25,000 as penalty for his failure to provide
information.
Following
this, the court sought response from the Tamil Nadu Information Commission's
chief information commissioner and adjourned the matter to April 16.
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