At last after four months, the CIC has come out with a decision of an unruly behavior of an appellant during the hearing. This happened on 2nd January 2008 in the chamber of IC OP Kejariwal.
The appellant Mr. Dinesh Gohel did not maintain any decorum in the Commissions office. The brief decision is self explanatory. The final lines of this decision read as "9. The conduct of the Appellant is, therefore, an intentional insult caused to the Presiding Officer of the Commission sitting in a judicial proceeding and the same, therefore, is an offence punishable under Section 228 of the IPC. This further reveals that the appellant never needed any information and that the application under RTI Act was moved by him only with a view to causing harassment and wrongful loss to the Public Authority. In fact, the information has been extracted from the PIO of the Public Authority holding out a threat of eventual imposition of penalty on him. This conduct of the Appellant is tantamount to an offence punishable under Section 189 of the IPC. Under the circumstances, the Commission, directs the Respondents (Station Director of All India Radio, Ahmedabad), to take steps for filing a complaint case under the appropriate provisions of penal law against the Appellant in the Court of the CMM/CJM." http://cic.gov.in/CIC-Orders/Decision_27022008_33.pdf Best wishes Manoj Pai Ahmedabad ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
