Delhi High Court overturns CIC order regarding delayed judgment data

The Delhi High Court has set aside an order from the Central Information Commission (CIC) that required the court's Public Information Officer (PIO) to locate and disclose data on cases where judgments were reserved but not pronounced within two months.

Justice Amit Mahajan ruled that the CIC could not direct the PIO to find such information based solely on the assumption that the data should be available within the office of the Chief Justice or with Court Masters. The ruling follows a petition challenging a 2011 CIC order stemming from a 2009 Right to Information (RTI) application. The original request sought details of cases heard by former Justice A. K. Sikri where judgments were delivered more than two months after arguments concluded.