The Chief Secretary GOK in an Unprecedentend Move and without Much Thoughts Has
Permitted a Proposal of an IAS officer Mr D S Ashwath Presently the
Commissioner AH & Veterinary Services Bangalore To Prosecute One Dr. K shivaram
Retd Asst director of AH &VS from Bangalore to file a defamation Suit against
him Under Rule 17 of IAS Conduct Rules in his Letter No DPAR183 SAS 2006 dated
06/05/2008 .
The Only Thing that Dr K shivaram did was to make an Request for information
for Certified Copies under RTI Act seeking infromation (1) Services Particulars
&(2) Assets &Liabilities Statements for the year 1996 & 2006 Submitted and Held
by the Govt .
The IAS officer whose APRs and Service particulars Sought by the citizen have
been objected to by the IAS officer it is not in Public Interest , at it is
only in Private Interest and with an intention to tarnish the personal image
and reputation . The IAS officer has also requested that the Information should
not be furnished to citizen vide his letter of 23.04.2008
Further the Chief Secrretary GOK in his reply dt 12.5.08to KIC Case No
515/com/2008 has confirmed this fact of his permitting the IAS officer to file
a defamation suit against the Information seeker for making False allegations ,
as the Citizen has not substantiated the public purpose being srved in
disclosing the third party information sought .
This is virtually an Intimidation and a clever move to Undermine the RTI Act
through which Citizens seeking Transpearncy and Accoubtability seek the APRs of
Officers and employees of the Govt to Know , analyse , study and audit how
certain Govt servants have ammassed wealth disproprtinate to their Known
Sources of Income .
Our Mahithi Hakku Adayayana Kendra denouces this Grant of Permission by the CS
to GOK as also this Trend of Senior IAS officer to Checkmate Citizens
Fundamental Rights , without Goining to the Actual Facts whether a citizen has
committed such acts which constitue Defamation by merely seeking APRs and
Service Records under his Right to Information .
We also are demanding that the CS has to Substantiate Action how he arrived
that an act of Tarnishing Image has been Committed by the citizen bY seeking
Records from Govt .
It will also be not out of context to inform that the Process Enumarated under
Sec 11 of RTI Act has not been carried out by the PIO & FAA and there is no
Material record that impunged False allegations are made .
N vikramsimha , KRIA Katte & Trustee MHAK, #12 Sumeru Sir M N Krishna Rao Road
, Basvangudi < Bangalore 560004.
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