The Central Information Commission on Wednesday directed the Supreme Court and the law Ministry to disclose action taken on a complaint against former Chief Justice of India Altmas Kabir in 2013.
The transparency panel also asked the law Ministry to disclose what action has been taken in the matter related to alleged leak of a judgement which was posted on a private website before it was delivered by him.
Deciding the plea of RTI activist Subhash Agrawal, Information Commissioner Sridhar Acharyulu also asked Central Public Information Officer of the Supreme Court to furnish details of the number of complaints rejected or accepted against the judges.
"The Commission directs the CPIO of Supreme Court to inform appellant, the action or follow up, on the representation dated May 6, 2013 of M Furquan regarding Justice Altamas Kabir, former CJI, which was forwarded to PPS of the CJI on March 27, 2013," Acharyulu said.
In his order, Acharyulu said there is no system for redressal of grievances in any court of India, and no mechanism to receive complaints against judiciary.
He said a comprehensive mechanism needs to be put in place to ensure both answerability and access to information about administration of justice without compromising the basic constitutional character of the independence of Judiciary.