Judges only

A Supreme Court ruling has thrown an unexpected spanner into the Right to Information apparatus, bringing the Central and state information commissions to a confused stop. It has ordered that from now on, these commissions must have two heads, a judicial member and an expert member, and the chief information commissioner must be no one but a high court chief justice or Supreme Court judge, vetted by the Chief Justice of India — because their work, it deemed, was akin to that of a judicial tribunal.

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