Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal has not got any relief from Gujarat High Court in PM Modi’s degree case. Gujarat High Court has rejected CM Kejriwal’s petition regarding PM Modi’s educational degree. Justice Biren Vaishnav rejected the revision petition filed by Aam Aadmi Party leader Kejriwal in June. Let us tell you, after the final arguments from both the parties in September, the High Court had reserved the decision. Last March, Justice Vaishnav, while accepting the university’s appeal against the CIC order, had quashed the Central Information Commission’s direction to Gujarat University to provide information to Kejriwal regarding Prime Minister Modi’s Master of Arts (MA) degree. Was asked for.
CM Kejriwal was fined Rs 25 thousand
The judge had also imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on Aam Aadmi Party leader Kejriwal. One of the key arguments mentioned in Kejriwal’s revision petition was that contrary to Gujarat University’s claim that Modi’s degree was available online, the degrees were not available on the university’s website. No information available. During the previous hearing, senior lawyer Percy Kavina, appearing for Kejriwal, had requested Justice Vaishnav to reconsider his decision and claimed that Gujarat University never uploaded Modi’s degree on its website, as per Was presented before the court.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for Gujarat University, argued that the purpose of Kejriwal’s review petition was to “perpetuate the controversy without any reason”. He said that the university is exempted under the Right to Information Act from sharing the degree of a student unless it is in public interest, but the Gujarat University management uploaded the degree on its website in June 2016 and informed the petitioner about it. informed. In April 2016, the then Chief Information Commissioner Acharyulu had directed Delhi University and Gujarat University to provide information to Kejriwal about Modi’s degrees.
The CIC order came a day after Kejriwal wrote a letter to Acharyulu, in which he said he had no objection if government records about him (Kejriwal) were made public. In the letter, Kejriwal had also questioned why the Commission wanted to hide information about Modi’s educational qualifications. However, Gujarat University objected to the CIC order, saying that someone’s “irresponsible childish curiosity” cannot constitute public interest under the RTI Act.
Information about PM Modi’s degree is already public – Mehta
Mehta had told the high court that there was nothing to hide as the information about the Prime Minister’s degree was already public and the university had put the information on its website on a particular date. However, in Kejriwal’s revision petition it was said that no degree is available on the university’s website. Instead, a document described as “Office Register” (OR) is displayed which is different to a degree.