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New Delhi: 04-Dec-2009 11:19:48 The Chief Information Commissioner of India Wajahat Habibullah has consented to withdraw his resignation from the office to the President of India. Wajahat Habibullah, who had resigned as the Chief Information Commissioner of India, on 20th Oct 2009 was supposed to take up his new assignment as the watchdog to the Right To Information in Jammu and Kashmir on Oct 26. According to informed sources the development was consequent to the criminal notice issued today by the Supreme Court of India in a contempt of court motion filed against Shri Habibullah by the Solicitor General of India citing 2 recent decisions of the Central Information Commission ordering the court's Public Information Officer to disclose cerrtain information pertaining to the recent appointment of some judges of the court. If Habibullah had taken up his new assignment in J&K he would have had to defend the case in his personal capacity. The Union of India has alleged that the publication on the CIC's website of these controversial decisions containing scandalous pleadings of the appellant has tended to lower the dignity of the Court and interfere in the administration of justice by busybodies in collaboration with the Central Information Commission. Commenting on Mr Habibullah's watchdog role in Jammu and Kashmir, a source in the PMO had said. "His essential task would be to help the government in consolidating the dialogue process with Kashmiri separatists with whom he has a personal equation,". Tragically now the peace process must defer to a legal process.
