Permission of superior Officer

 

COMMON CAUSE PETITIONER(S) VERSUS HIGH COURT OF

Supreme court  in WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) NO.194 OF 2012 COMMON CAUSE PETITIONER(S) VERSUS HIGH COURT OF ALLAHABAD & ANR. held that

Third objection is to the requirement, in the Allahabad High Court Rules, for permission of the Chief Justice or the Judge concerned to the disclosure of information. We make it clear that the said requirement will be only in respect of information which is exempted under the scheme of the Act.

Wherever rules do not comply with the above observations, the same be revisited as our observations are based on mandate of the Act which must be complied with.