Sun, Nov 24, 2024 | Jumada al-Awwal 22, 1446 | DXB ktweather icon0°C

Delhi HC blocks letters on 2002 Gujarat riots

Top Stories

AHMEDABAD — The Delhi High Court has ruled that the correspondence between the then prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and president K R Narayanan on Gujarat’s 2002 communal riots cannot be disclosed.

Published: Fri 13 Jul 2012, 12:40 AM

Updated: Fri 3 Apr 2015, 11:31 AM

  • By
  • Mahesh Trivedi

Allowing the Centre’s appeal against the Central Information Commissioner’s (CIC) order directing the government to disclose the February 28-March 15 correspondence between the two at the peak of the bloody Hindu-Muslim clashes, the high court said that the communications related to issues of national importance and security and hence could not be made public.

Justice Anil Kumar set aside the August 8, 2006 CIC order asking the federal government to disclose all the letters sent by Narayanan to Vajpayee relating to the riots as sought by an RTI applicant, C. Ramesh.

The order was challenged by the Centre, claiming that such disclosures would affect the sovereignty and integrity of the country.

mahesh@khaleejtimes.com



Next Story