The Commission on June 3, last year had declared Congress, BJP, CPI, CPI(M), NCP and BSP as public authorities answerable under the Right to Information (RTI) Act and given them six weeks to comply with the mandatory requirements under the law for the processing of information seeking applications.
But none of the political parties followed the directives of the quasi-judicial body which are a binding as per the RTI Act unless a contrary order is received from a High Court through a writ petition.
Following the disregard of the verdict given by the transparency panel, activists Subhash Agrawal, R K Jain and voluntary organisation Association for Democratic Reforms filed complaint with the CIC.
"It's been more than 17 months since the CIC's order and till now none of the six political parties has complied with the CIC's order... This is a clear case of open defiance of a statutory authority by the six political parties and is not conducive to the functioning of a democratic society," ADR said in a statement.
A bench of Vijai Sharma, Manjula Parashar and Sharat Sabharwal will hear the complaint.