Central government prepares to file for review of the Supreme Court’s 13 September judgment that said that each RTI information commission should also be staffed by an HC or SC judge [ BS ] CIC, none of whose commissioners have a judicial background, had stopped functioning after the judgment and ha...

The Supreme Court on Friday disposed of a writ petition filed two months ago, opening the floodgates to many more post-retirement positions for high court and Supreme Court judges and bringing the functioning of the CIC to an abrupt emergency halt.