Hindustan Times: New Delhi: Thursday, August 24, 2017.
The Delhi
high court on Wednesday upheld a CIC order directing the Centre to give IFS
officer Sanjiv Chaturvedi a copy of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) report
regarding alleged harassment and false cases filed against the whistle-blower
for exposing graft during his tenure as forest officer in Haryana.
The court
dismissed the IB’s plea challenging Chief Information Commission’s (CIC) April
2016 order directing to provide a copy of the report in relation to the alleged
harassment, human rights violation, and false cases filed against Chaturvedi.
Additional
solicitor general Sanjay Jain, appearing for IB, had argued that the report
cannot be made public as the agency is protected under section 24 of the RTI
Act, which provides that intelligence and security agencies cannot be forced to
make any information public.
Chaturvedi
had argued that though intelligence and security agencies are exempt from the
Act, they cannot claim exemption if the information sought from them relates to
corruption and human rights violation. He is currently posted as conservator of
forest at Haldwani in Nainital.
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