Supreme Court opens itself: Office of Chief Justice under RTI
(WorldNews India)

The Supreme Court Wednesday ruled that the office of the Chief Justice of India was a `public authority` under the Right to Information Act but with the rider that `when the public interest demands the disclosure of information, judicial independence has to be kept in mind while deciding the question of exercise of discretion`. Advertising A Constitution bench of Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi and Justices N V Ramana, D Y Chandrachud, Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna upheld the January 2010 Delhi High Court judgment which said that the apex court and the office of the CJI would fall within the ambit of the 2005 RTI Act. The court dismissed three appeals filed by its Central Public...