A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath reserved the order after the parties concluded their arguments on the appeals filed by the Ministry of Law and Justice.
During the arguments, advocate Prashant Bhushan, who appeared for RTI activist Subhash Chandra Agarwal, said the Supreme Court has held in various judgements that citizens have a right to know what their representatives are doing.
He argued that AGI's office is created by the Constitution and it is vested with various statutory powers and functions.
Additional Solicitor General Sanjay Jain argued on the legal aspects in support of the appeals filed by the ministry.
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The ministry had filed the appeals against a March 10 last year order of the single judge bench bringing the AGI's office under the ambit of RTI Act as the top law officer performed public functions and his appointment was governed by the Constitution.
The court had remanded back to the Central Information
Commission (CIC), the pleas of RTI activists Agarwal and R K Jain, who had sought that the AGI's office be declared a public authority under the transparency law.
The court had directed the AGI to reconsider the RTI application of Jain as his plea for information was denied on the basis of the CIC order that the office of AGI is not a public authority.
While setting aside the CIC order, the single judge had noted that the expression 'authority' under the RTI Act would include all persons or bodies that have been conferred power to perform functions entrusted to them and those performing advisory functions cannot be excluded.