New Delhi, January 7: The Supreme Court has on Tuesday directed the central and state governments to fill up the vacancies in the Central Information Commission and state information commissions.

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Supreme Court has taken a dim view in this regard and directed both Central as well as State governments to take immediate measures.

Asking for an expeditious selection of information commissioners in the CIC, a bench of Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh told the Centre, "These posts need to be filled at the earliest otherwise what is the use of having the institution, if we don’t have people working?"

The bench criticized the appointments being made only from a particular category of candidates in the CIC and SICs and mulled taking a judicial note on the presence of bureaucrats, and not people from all walks of life, in these commissions.