Hyderabad: Justice Nooty Ramamohana Rao of the Hyderabad High Court on Wednesday suspended an order of the AP state information commissioner directing the public information officer of the High Court to furnish the information relating to judicial officers.

The state information commissioner on October 22, 2014, passed an order in an appeal by N. Purushotham Reddy, president of High Court Telangana Employees Association challenging the refusal of his application under the RTI Act by the information officer of the HC.

The appellant had sought the list of total number of sanctioned posts of district judges to each district and list of officers working in the category of district judges, senior civil judges and junior civil judges, their names and native district.

Aggrieved by the order Registrar (Vigilance) of the HC moved a plea contending that the information sought by the association president is neither related to the employees association nor is there any larger public interest involved in it and as such the information cannot be supplied to the applicant as it pertains to a third party.

While admitting the plea, Justice Ramamohana Rao granted interim suspension of the order and posted the matter after four weeks.