The Indian Express: New Delhi: Tuesday, January 09, 2018.
The Supreme
Court will hear on February 6 a petition challenging the Union government’s
2011 decision to keep the CBI out of the purview of the Right to Information
(RTI) Act.
A bench of
Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud
posted the matter for final hearing after the parties said they need time to
make their submission.
Advocate Ajay
Agrawal, who filed the petition, has alleged that the government had issued the
notification in 2011 “solely to scuttle the RTI appeal pending before the Chief
Information Commissioner in regard to the Bofors case in which order was passed
by the CIC directing the CBI to provide the requisite papers to the
petitioner”. Agrawal, who unsuccessfully contested from Rae Bareli in 2014, has
sought quashing of the Centre’s June 9, 2011 notification.
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