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The Indian Judiciary has declared a war on the RTI Act- and that's hampering judicial reform
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This opinion was published in the Scroll on November 30, 2019.
Authors
Prashant Reddy T.
Former Team Lead, JALDI
Prashant Reddy T. was a Senior Resident Fellow and former team lead of Judicial Reforms Initiative at the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy
Chitrakshi Jain
Former Research Fellow
Chitrakshi Jain was a Research Fellow with the Judicial Reforms vertical. As a member of the vertical, she worked on issues such as judicial planning, transparency in the judiciary and the way the office of prosecution works in the criminal justice system in India. A 2014 graduate of NALSAR, Hyderabad she was working as a research associate for the Centre for Social Justice, Ahmedabad prior to joining Vidhi. Interested in pursuing research that lies at the intersection of law and social sciences, she completed her Masters in Politics from the University of Delhi.