[HumJanenge] Information Commission urges SC to keep record of judges’ medical bills

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Information Commission urges SC to keep record of judges' medical bills

New Delhi, Feb 7, 2012, PTI:

The Central Information Commission has again asked the Supreme Court
to ensure that medical bills of serving and retired judges are duly
maintained and provided to RTI applicants after the Apex court did not
decide on sharing the details despite the panel's order in 2010.

Responding to activist Subhash Agrawal, the Supreme Court had said it
does not keep records of medical reimbursement of judges and, hence,
they could not be furnished to him.

In August 2010, the CIC had directed the Supreme Court to make
arrangements to maintain details of medical reimbursement made to
judges. They should, it had said, be maintained in digital format so
that their retrieval and disclosure could be easier.

However, the Supreme Court did not furnish details, saying a stay has
been issued by the Delhi High Court on the disclosure of information
of similar nature in a separate case and, therefore, such records
could not be made public.

Agrawal again moved the CIC, saying details of medical reimbursement
have not been provided to him.

In his verdict last week, Chief Information Commissioner Satyananda
Mishra directed the Apex court to place the order before the Secretary
General of the Supreme Court to decide on maintenance of these
records.