The Supreme Court on Monday directed all State Information Commissions (SICs) to establish a hybrid system to hear complaints and appeals under the Right to Information Act, 2005 (RTI Act).
The CIC recently directed a Central Public Information Officer (CPIO) to furnish a man with only the "generic details of the net taxable income or gross income" of his wife to verify these details in a maintenance case.
Criticising a cryptic SIC order declining to disclose information under the RTI Act, the Court said that the order should be self-explanatory and should not have had "rubber stamp" reasons.
The Goa bench of the Bombay High Court last week held that the Archbishop of Goa, and Daman and Diu is not a 'public authority' under the Right to Information Act (RTI Act).