New Delhi, Feb. 11 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that it does not wish to scrutinise the candidates shortlisted for the appointment of the chief information commissioner as it turned down the plea to examine the dissent note moved by the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha as part of the Selection Committee proceedings chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in December last year. Hearing a petition filed by RTI activist Anjali Bhardwaj and two others for timely filling up of posts in the Central Information Commission (CIC) and state information commissions (SIC) where this issue was raised, the court clarified that its purpose is not to hold a trial of the names considered against each post and in any case, the PM-led selection panel is not expected to pick an "ineligible" person. A bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant said, "There is no question of holding a trial here. The requirement under the RTI Act is to appoint chief information commissioner and information commissioners. If somebody has expressed a dissenting note, what is the difference? Do we expect this much that the Selection Committee headed by the Prime Minister will appoint an ineligible person." Besides the PM as chair, the three-member Selection Committee meeting was attended by the Leader of Opposition and Union home minister Amit Shah. The meeting was crucial as the CIC has been headless since September 2025 besides seven posts of information commissioners lying vacant. Following the deliberations, former law secretary Raj Kumar Goyal, a 1990 batch IAS officer, was appointed as chief information commissioner along with seven new information commissioners who took oath in December....