Chandigarh: March 23, 2009:- On a Civil Writ Petition by social activist Hemant Goswami, the Punjab and Haryana High Court today issued notice of motion to the Ministry of Home, Ministry of Personnel and the Chandigarh Administration. Writ has been filed on the issue of promulgation of separate rules under the Right to Information Act by which the UT of Chandigarh increased the RTI application fee and the cost of documents to be obtained under RTI by 500 percent.

The petitioner in his writ has mentioned that the action of promulgation new RTI rules under Section 28 of the RTI Act by the Adminis [ … ]