Justice Nuthalapati Venkata Ramana, who had ruled against the Narendra Modi government over the Internet restrictions in Jammu and Kashmir and delivered several trend-setting judgments, was on Saturday elevated as the 48th Chief Justice of India.
President Ram Nath Kovind formally administered the oath of office and secrecy to Ramana at a brief event held at the Rashtrapathi Bhavan where Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, outgoing CJI S.A. Bobde, judges of the Supreme Court and several other dignitaries were present.
A former journalist with one of the leading Telugu dailies Eenadu, Justice Ramana will have a tenure of 16 months and will retire on August 26, 2022.
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The Times of India published a report to say that major banks, including State Bank of India (SBI), Bank of Baroda, Bank of India and HDFC Bank, had moved the Supreme Court (SC) of India to recall its six-year old judgement of 2015, which had ordered banks to provide certain information about their functioning under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. Banks and their expensive lawyers argued that “account holders may sue them for putting such details (client information) in the public domain” and that the order could be “misused for corporate rivalry” and affect the banking industry as a whole. Let’s examine how correct this claim is.
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The deleterious impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the operations of the Right to Information (RTI) Act has been much discussed in the last one year. We drew attention to it in several of our columns. We also highlighted the positive role it played in enhancing public awareness about the importance of the law during a crisis period. In today s column, we revert to its use in normal times.
Let s look at three examples from neighbouring India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka some more recent than others.
The Sri Lankan example stemmed from an RTI request filed by a local journalist, Chamara Sampath, who sought from the secretary general of the Parliament the list of Members of Parliament (MP) who had submitted Declaration of Assets and Liabilities during the years 2010-2018. The secretary general declined to release them, arguing that they were submitted confidentially by the MPs to the speaker, and he had no access to them. He also felt that the request infringed on the privileges of the Pa
CIC Fails to Reveal How Centre, Presidentâs Secretariat Proceeded With Ex-HC Judge s Impeachment
Two CJIâs had reminded PM of the importance of the medical college scam case after Justice Shukla was indicted in January 2018, but no action was taken, and he retired in July 2020.
Central Information Commission headquarters. Credit: cic.gov.in
Law28/Jan/2021
How and why Justice Shri Narayan Shukla of the Allahabad high court â against whom former Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Mishra had recommended impeachment proceedings in January 2018 â was allowed to complete his term and retire on July 17, 2020, may always remain a mystery.
Later in 2019, CJI Ranjan Gogoi had for the first time given permission to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to lodge an FIR under the Prevention of Corruption Act for his alleged involvement in a medical college scam.