Click to play videoNew Delhi: A big judicial battle is brewing between the Central Information Commission and the Supreme Court of India. The fight is over whether the Chief Information Commissioner can tell the Chief Justice of India to name the union minister who threatened a Madras High Court Judge.
Both the Chief Justice of India and the Chief Information Commissioner are trying to prove their supremacy over the other in the matter now.
Eight days after the CIC directed the Supreme Court to disclose details pertaining to the appointment of three judges and also the name of the central minister who allegedly approached a Madras High Court judge in an attempt to influence him, the Supreme Court got a stay against the CIC order from the Supreme Court itself.
An appeal from the Supreme Court to itself may sound odd but it was unease with CIC's orders that pushed the apex court to exercise the unusual option.
While the Attorney-General representing the Supreme Court in the matter argued that Chief justice of India holds all such information in confidentiality, RTI activists argue that matters related to appointment is official work and cannot be kept secret by the court.
The larger question in this matter will pertain to whether the office of the Chief Justice of India is within the ambit of the RTI or not.
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