JUSTICE S Ravindra Bhatt of Delhi High Court should be complimented for his repeated verdict to induce transparency as desired under Right to Information (RTI) Act when he now turned down pleas of several public-funded bodies including Commonwealth Games Organising Committee, Indian Olympic Association, Sanskriti School etc against CIC-verdicts holding these bodies under purview of RTI Act.
In fact, concerned public information officers of public-bodies losing court-cases against CIC verdicts should be penalised to discourage filing such baseless cases at a time when RTI Act in itself is absolutely clear without actually needing any further endorsement from the courts. Such a move will discourage filing frivolous court-cases against CIC verdicts simply to defer providing information in otherwise required under RTI Act for a time-bound supply of information.
A division-bench at Supreme Court had once rightly observed that many-a-times petitioners seeking stay-orders at initial stage are successful to drag cases for long but ultimately losing the case! Case-number WPC 2908/2007 against CIC verdict at Delhi High Court still remains undecided because of the public-authority Department of Justice obtaining ex-party stay in April 2007, went on seeking adjournments again and again while cases filed against CIC verdicts in the year 2009 were decided in the year 2009 itself.
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