India Today: New Delhi: Saturday, February 03, 2018.
The Delhi
High Court today fixed March 13 for hearing Indian Forest Service officer
Sanjiv Chaturvedis contempt plea against the CBI for allegedly violating
judicial orders that said the agency has no absolute exemption from disclosing
information under the RTI Act.
Justice V K
Rao listed the matter for hearing in March after the counsel for the CBI
informed that the basis on which the contempt plea is filed by the officer is
subject matter of challenge before a division bench, which is scheduled to hear
the appeal on March 5.
Taking note
of this, the single bench fixed the matter for hearing on March 13.
In his
petition, Chaturvedi has contended that the high court ruling that the CBI, and
other such agencies, have to disclose information held by them pertaining to
allegations of corruption and human rights violations, was binding on them.
He has
alleged that the high court orders were not being followed by the central
public information officers (CPIO) of the CBI as it denied him information he
had sought regarding certain corruption cases at the All India Institute of
Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
Advocate Mehmood
Pracha, appearing for the officer, has alleged that the CPIO of CBI denied him
the information despite being aware of the high court rulings.
Pracha has
also argued that as the high court orders of August and September last year
contained general directions that intelligence agencies have to disclose
information pertaining to allegations of corruption and human rights violations
held by them, not doing so amounted to contempt of court.
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