New Delhi: A bench-led by Justice Pratibha Singh will hear the plea filed by RTI activists seeking a response from various government agencies as they failed to answer the RTI application seeking details of the Aarogya Setu application which was launched by the government post the outbreak of COVID-19.
On January 19, the Delhi High Court issued a notice to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) and Central Public Information Officers (CPIOs) of its various departments on a plea seeking details of the Aarogya Setu mobile application.
Justice Prathiba M Singh issued notices and sought responses of the MEITY and CPIO of the ministry, National E-Governance Division (NeGD), Department of Electronics and eGov and National Informatics Centre.
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The high court directed the counsel for petitioner and RTI activist Saurav Das and various agencies to place a chart setting out the information sought by him, provided to him and yet to be provided and listed the matter for further hearing on February 24.