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New Delhi, Nov 12 The Delhi High Court on Friday sought the Centre's response on a petition challenging the Ministry of Home Affairs' refusal to provide information on electronic surveillance ordered under Section 69 of the Information Technology Act (IT Act).A single-judge Justice Yashwant Verma has given two weeks' time to the counsel appearing on behalf of the Central government in the matter. The court will hear the matter further on December 2.Senior Advocate Trideep Pais argued for the petitioner, briefed by Vrinda Bhandari and others.According to the counsels, in December 2018, petitioner Apar Gupta, the Co-founder and Executive Director of the Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) filed six applications under the Right to Information Act seeking details of a number of orders passed under Section 69 of the IT Act between January 2016 and December 2018 granting permission for electronic surveillance.However, the Central Public Information Office (CPIO) disposed of his request arguing that disclosure of information related to lawful interception/phone tapping/monitor or decrypt is exempted under the RTI. It is submitted that the petitioner has been denied his fundamental right to access to information for nearly three years due to delay attributable entirely to the Respondents.In the plea, the petitioner sought a writ, order, or direction to set aside the July 30 order issued by the First Appellate Authority (FAA) notified by the Ministry of Home Affairs under the Right to Information Act 2005 whereby the Ministry refused to disclose any information sought by the Petitioner regarding issuance of orders passed under Section 69 of the Information Technology Act 2000.The petitioner contended that the Centre's refusal was on the ground that "no such information, for the period of reference, was available with the CPIO, even though such a ground was not taken earlier by the FAA or the Ld. Central Public Information Officer (CPIO).The plea sought to frame appropriate guidelines and directions to prevent the destruction of information sought in RTI proceedings on account of statutory or executive rules or practices on weeding out of documents, during the pendency of RTI proceedings and adequate preservation of the same.Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor

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