There was a time when the Courts in India , particularly the Supreme Court waxed eloquent about the “Right to Information”, being a part of the Constitutionally enshrined right to speech and expression. Thus, while rejecting the government’s claim of privilege on the Blue book containing the security instructions for the Prime Minister in Indira Gandhi’s case, the Court said, “In a government of responsibility like ours, where all the agents of the public must be responsible for their conduct, there can be but few secrets. The people of this country have a right to know every public act, everything, that is done in a public way by their public functionaries.”
RTI and Judiciary by Prashant Bhushan
