CIC paves way for disclosure of corruption complaints against Union ministers
(WorldNews India)

The Central Information Commission (CIC) has paved the way for disclosure of corruption complaints against Union ministers by terming objections of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) as “not correct� in response to an RTI application filed by bureaucrat Sanjiv Chaturvedi. Advertising Chaturvedi, a 2002-batch officer of the Indian Forest Service, had in August 2017 filed an RTI application with the PMO seeking details of corruption complaints against Union ministers received from June 2014 till the date of filling of the application. The PMO, in its response in October 2017, had said that this information was “generic and vague� and cited an earlier order of the...