Times of
India: New Delhi: Thursday, 05 March 2020.
Holding
that information held by a high court on the judicial side are “personal
information” of litigants, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said a person cannot
invoke the Right to Information Act to get details relating to a case, which
can be disclosed only as per the rules framed by the HC.
A
bench of Justices R Banumathi, A S Bopanna and Hrishikesh Roy said different
high courts have framed rules for a third party to have access to obtain
certified copies of documents or orders and the procedures under the rules have
to followed to get information instead of filing RTI application.
The
court said the rule requiring a person to file an application/affidavit stating
the reasons for seeking the information is not inconsistent with the provisions
of the RTI Act but merely lays down a different procedure like payment of fees
etc for obtaining information.
“This
would involve wastage of both time and fiscal resources which the preamble of
the RTI Act itself intends to avoid,” it said.
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