Outlook India: New Delhi: Sunday, December 17, 2017.
The Delhi
High Court has stayed an order of the transparency panel CIC directing the CBI
to provide one of its officers the status of his disciplinary proceedings and
related information.
Justice Vibhu
Bakhru in an interim order put on hold the Central Information Commission's
(CIC) June 9 decision in which the panel had said that the CBI officer had the
"right to know about his own case".
The court
also issued notice to the officer and sought his reply before the next date of
hearing on January 22, 2018.
It noted that
the information sought by the officer from the CBI did not pertain to
allegations of corruption or human rights violation in the agency.
Under the
Right to Information (RTI) Act, security and intelligence agencies are exempted
from the purview of the transparency law, except where information is sought
regarding allegations of corruption or human rights violations.
The order
came on the CBI's appeal, filed through advocate C K Bhatt, against the CIC
decision asking the agency to revisit the RTI application of the officer and to
give him a point-wise reply to each of his query, keeping in view the
provisions of the transparency law.
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