2014 (1) TMI 1601

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....ipul Kumar, Advocates, for the Appellant. Shri Rajiv, Bansal, Advocate, Manoj Chawla, AOJ, Vinay Sharma & Sudhir Sachdeva, Sr. Judicial Assistants and Dibyaranjan Gouda, Jr. Judicial Assistant, for the Respondent. ORDER The Appellant was present along with Shri R.B. Bansal & Shri Bipul Kumar, Advocates. On behalf of the Respondent, the following were present :- (i)   ....

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....he would now press for was regarding the number of cases in which orders had been reserved but not passed even after the lapse of two months or more. On behalf of the Respondent, it was argued that this information was not being maintained in the first place. Secondly, it was also argued that the information regarding such cases was being furnished to the Chief Justice of the High Court in a seale....

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....d be available not only with the Court Masters but also in the office of the Chief Justice. Even if it is admitted that the office of the Chief Justice may not be compiling and collating such data received from the Court Masters, it should suffice if photocopies of the reports furnished by the Court Masters are provided to the Appellant. Besides, the disclosure of such information would serve a la....

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....the High Court for a very long time and compiling information about the reserved orders passed by him or benches in which he had been a member judge would be impossible and would disproportionately divert the resources of the public authority, we think that it would suffice if this information is provided for a period of two years only preceding the date of the RTI application. However, if a cumul....