AS per one media report Mr. Habibullah decides against taking this to Supreme Court.
---------------------------------- http://bit.ly/9Awocn Days after the Delhi High Court sought to curb the autonomy of the Central Information Commission by holding that it had no power to frame the June 2007 rules to regulate its functioning, its chief Wajahat Habibullah said that the Commission would continue to function in the same manner and that the Attorney General has assured that the rules were in sync with the laws. Denying any possibility of moving the Supreme Court against the verdict, he said the Commission has asked the Centre to expedite its request to notify rules in the official gazette, thereby according legal sanction. In a stance not in tandem with what the court ruled on May 21, Habibullah said the rules were never in violation of the RTI Act or that the CIC lacked the power to frame them. “I spoke to Attorney General G E Vahanvati today and discussed at length the repercussions of the HC verdict. He told me that the rules were not in violation of the RTI Act. He assured me that Section 12 of the Act empowered the CIC to frame the impugned regulations,” Habibullah said. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rti_india/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rti_india/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
