HC asks UP govt file reply on appointment of Infor

The Allahabad High Court, acting on separate petitions filed by suspended IPS officer Amitabh Thakur and advocate M N Rai challenging the appointment of the Information Commissioners for the UP Information Commission, today asked the state government to serve the reply by tomorrow.
A division bench of Justice Amreshwar Pratap Sahi and Justice Attau Rahman Masoodi also directed the petitioners to file their replies to the government's response within three days.
Earlier, the court had asked the state government to clarify about the procedure adopted by the three-member committee for screening the suitable persons to be choosen as Information Commissioners.

The government was also asked to respond on how 644 applications could be scrutinized by the committee within a short period of a meeting which started at 11 am and the recommendations sent on the same date.
The state counsel submitted that the affidavit, that was directed to be filed, shall be served on the petitioners by Thursday.
"Let the said affidavit be served by tomorrow, to which a reply will be filed with in three days," the court ordered.