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The Gujarat Excessive Court docket on Friday put aside the seven-year-old order of the Central Info Fee (CIC), asking the Gujarat College to supply data on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s diploma to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
Permitting the Gujarat College’s enchantment towards the CIC order, Justice Biren Vaishnav additionally imposed a value of Rs 25,000 on Kejriwal and requested him to deposit the quantity inside 4 weeks to the Gujarat State Authorized Providers Authority (GSLSA). Justice Vaishnav additionally refused to remain his order as requested by Kejriwal’s lawyer Percy Kavina. In April 2016, the then CIC M Sridhar Acharyulu had directed the Delhi College and the Gujarat College to supply data to Kejriwal on the levels that Modi obtained. Three months later, the Gujarat Excessive Court docket stayed the CIC order after the varsity approached it towards that order. The CIC order got here a day after Kejriwal wrote to Acharyulu, saying he has no objection to authorities information about him being made public and questioned why the fee needed to “conceal” data on Modi’s academic {qualifications}. Based mostly on the letter, Acharyulu directed the Gujarat College to offer information of Modi’s academic {qualifications} to Kejriwal. In the course of the previous hearings, the Gujarat College vehemently objected to the CIC’s order saying “irresponsible infantile curiosity” of somebody can’t change into public curiosity underneath the Proper to Info (RTI) Act.
Over the past listening to held in February, Solicitor Basic Tushar Mehta, showing for the college, claimed that there was nothing to cover within the first place as a result of details about PM’s levels is “already in public area” and the college had additionally positioned the data on its web site on a selected date previously. Citing exceptions granted underneath the RTI Act for not complying with the order of the CIC, Mehta had additionally argued that the RTI Act is getting used for settling scores and to make “infantile jabs” towards opponents. Citing some previous judgements of the Supreme Court docket and by different excessive courts concerning the exemptions granted underneath part 8 of the RTI Act, Mehta additionally stated that one can’t search somebody’s private data simply because one is interested by it.
First Printed: Mar 31 2023 | 3:34 PM IST
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