Altaf Hamid Rao
Mirpur
Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) High Court has accepted a writ petition, for regular hearing, seeking immediate legislation and implementation of Right to Information (RTI) in the AJK, as protected in the AJK Interim Constitution of 1974.
The learned court has fixed June 25, the next date of hearing and ordered for issuance of notices to all the respondents made party in to the case.
The writ petition titled ‘’Zaffar Mughal and others v/s AJK government’’ was filed under Article 4 of the Interim Constitution – 1974, by the petitioner, a senior Kashmiri journalist and former press secretary to the AJK Prime Minister Zafar Mughal who prayed that the respondents may kindly be directed to legislate the Right to Information Law in pursuance of dictates of the Paragraph XXII of Article 4 of the AJK Interim Constitution, 1974.
He also prayed that the respondents may also be directed to provide for the hierarchy in the AJK under the Right to Information Law and to make regulations in pursuance thereof.
It was prayed in the petition that the Information Commission in pursuance of the relevant law may kindly be directed to constitute in accordance with the law. Any other relief permissible under law may please be allowed.
