CIC to hear plea on PM’s air travel bills

NEW DELHI: The Central Information Commission will hear on Tuesday the case related to disclosure of details of expenses incurred on air travel of the Prime Minister. The Commission has directed Prime Minister’s Office and ministry of external affairs to be present during the hearing on Tuesday at chief information commissioner’s office.

The case relates to Commodore (Retd) Lokesh Batra who had sought details of the expenditure incurred on foreign travels of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his predecessors, which the ministry of external affairs (MEA) had denied citing sections of the RTI related to security.

The PMO had refused the information citing personal safety. Chief information commissioner Radha Krishna Mathur had directed the PMO to peruse the files. PTI