New Delhi, September 07: The documents submitted to courts as part of litigations become their property and can only be sought from the concerned courts once a decision has been given by them, the Central Information Commission has held.
The case relates to plea of RTI activist Shekhar Singh who sought from the CIC copies of all the documents filed by the Commission in the Supreme Court and different High Courts pertaining to decisions of the transparency panel.
The documents ran into about 15-20 thousand pieces. The CPIO rejected the plea saying documents are with the Standing Counsel and retrieving them would be difficult. It said that copies of such large number of documents would necessarily divert the resources of the Commission, hence cannot be given.
–Agencies