Delhi High Court today directed the government to appoint three commissioners at the Central Information Commission (CIC) within six weeks from among the 553 applications received in response to two notifications issued last year, as the vacant posts have led to a massive backlog of cases.<br/><br/>A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw said that the September 9 circular of the Department of Personnel and Training inviting applications for appointment<br/>of Chief Information Commissioner and Information Commissioners (ICs), shall be confined to the post of the transparency panel's head which would fall vacant from December 2.<br/>The court's order came on a PIL filed by RTI activists R K Jain, Lokesh K Batra and Subhash Chandra Agarwal, who had alleged that no action has been taken on the issue despite two distress letters written by CIC to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO).