24 November,2022 11:42 AM IST | New Delhi | PTI
Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud. File Pic
Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud on Thursday said an online portal for filing RTI applications to help people access information about the top court would be operationalised soon.
At the outset of the hearing, the CJI, who was sharing the bench with Justices Hima Kohli and J B Pardiwala, said the portal will start functioning in 15 minutes.
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Justice Chandrachud urged the lawyers to see if there were some technical glitches initially and come out with suggestions to make the portal better.
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The bench headed by the CJI had been hearing a plea filed by law students Akriti Agarwal and Lakshya Purohit seeking a mechanism to file RTI applications online in the apex court.
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