---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Babubhai Vaghela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 10:29 AM Subject: CIC has become a hotbed of corrupt practices and there is a strong need for vigilance investigation into the..... To: Smt Pratibha Patil Hon'ble President of India < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Prof M M Ansari Information Commissioner CIC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wajahat Habibullah CIC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, PKP Shreyaskar Under Scy CIC < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>, O P Kejariwal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ms Padma Balasubramanyam IC CIC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], A N Tiwari < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Pratyunshu Sinha CVC New Delhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chairperson NHRC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Transparency International India < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "V C Agarwal Director (HR) IOC" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>, right-to-information-act-2005 < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "saeed. khan" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Samir Barua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Arun Balakrishnan Chairman HPCL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ashok Sinha CMD BPCL < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>, S Behuria Chairman IOC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "G C Daga Director (Marketing) IOC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, " [EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "hemali. chhapia" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Meghnad Desai < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Amartya Sen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, CII < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ASSOCHAM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, FICCI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Lead India TOI Winner Rajendra Misra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sanjeev Kaura Lead India TOI Finalist Delhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ujjwal < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Arvind_Kejriwal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rajdeep Sardesai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], brinda majithia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, My Times My Voice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Help Hindustan Times < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Smt. Rajni Razdan Secretary AR PG&P" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Shri D.V.S.Ranga JS MOSJ&E" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hon'ble Minister MOSJ&E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Veena Chhotray < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>, UnderSecretaryPMO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Saibal Sarkar Dy Scy PG PMO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Dr. Renuka Viswanathan Secretary (Coord & PG) PG PMO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Sh. K M Chandrasekhar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], P Chidambaram Hon'ble Finance Minister < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Montek Singh Ahluwalia Dy Chairman Planning Commission <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Shri Sushilkumar Shinde Honourable Minister of Power GOI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kum Selja MOS for Housing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mani Shankar Aiyar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Smt Renuka Chowdhury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Help Education UNESCO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Help UNESCO Paris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Help Gujarat High Court <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Registrar General Bombay High Court <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Help Kolkata High Court < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>, High Court of Karnataka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, High Court Jaipur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, High Court Jodhpur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Registrar General Madras High Court <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Help Supreme Court < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hon'ble Speaker Lok Sabha Parliament < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hon'ble Vice President of India < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "K.C Jayarajan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hon'ble Prime Minister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*Wish You Happy Dussehra* Smt Pratibha Patil, Hon'ble President of India, New Delhi Respected Madam, As regards the enclosed media news - Guj HC Grants CIC one Month - on working of CIC, I wish to share my experience of CIC as under: 1. During the year 2005-06, I filed 37 RTI complaints / second appeals against IOC Mumbai and Delhi. 2. Prof M M Ansari IC CIC New Delhi heard the cases in September 2006 without getting me replies of PIOs / FAAs of IOC. 3. Prof M M Ansari IC CIC New Delhi heard the cases without giving me an opportunity to submit rejoinder to reply by IOC. Presence of the PIOs / FAAs was also not ensured. 4. Prof M M Ansari recorded his decision after six days and as mentioned in his decision of 28th September 2006 (copy enclosed) heard 35 cases. He has, despite requests not informed which two balance cases have remained pending. 5. Prof M M Ansari, however, recorded decision for only four cases in his decision of 28th September 2006 out of 35 cases said to have been heard though not heard. He heard my cases hurriedly in an hour so without the presence of PIOs / FAAs of IOC. 6. In his decision of 28th September 2006, Prof M M Ansari recorded outright wrong, baseless and outrageuos allegations against me that I strongly refuted later in my review petition. 7. As I did not get the requested information for all my RTI applications (and has still not got) from IOC and principle of natural justice was seriously been violated, I submitted review petition on 2nd February 2007 to CIC requesting for a full bench rearing. Copy enclosed for kind perusal. So far, my reasonable request has not been considered by Prof M M Ansari / CIC. 8. I then made efforts to get justice filing RTI application to CIC and then, as suggested by CPIO CIC, once again made request to Prof M M Ansari to hear the cases (forwarded herewith) but there has been no response from him / from CIC. 9. On 12th September 2008, I personally met Mr Wajahat Habubullah in his office to help me in the long pending matter. 10. As directed by him, I went to Pof M M Ansari to personally request him and his secretariat staff then directed me to first look at the papers lying in his office. 11. On going through the papers, *I observed that no. of my second appeals / complaints that Prof M M Ansari mentioned as disposed off have not been even been given file nos. / not registered at all. They were lying as it is unattended even after more than two years.* 12. Incidentally, as was requested by CIC during 2005-06, I had submitted five sets of my second appeals / complaints and *total weight of those coipes was about 2.5 kg.* 13. After going through the papers, I made one more effort to see Prof M M Ansari the same day before leaving Delhi to apprise him of the status and personally request for hearing the cases. 14. I then met Prof M AM Ansari and politely told him about what I had observed in his office on my cases lying unattended. However, he flatly refused to entertain my request for hearing of the cases against IOC. *He told me that he had cleared the cases and he had now nothing to do with them.* 15. I wish to bring to your kind notice that Prof M M Ansari is well known for availing hospitality of IOC at IOC cost. 16. Incidentally, IOC management has been harping, in large no of communications to GOI agencies and even PMO that Prof M M Ansari had cleared all my cases through his decision on 28th September 2006 and IOC had furnished all the information to me *when the cases have not even been registered*, have been lying there unattended till 12th September 2008 when I saw them with my own naked eyes. All the requested information has not been furnished to me by IOC though repeatedly and wrongly claimed by IOC management in various communications. 17. Despite large no of serious violations by PIOs / FAAs of IOC, Prof M M Ansari did not impose any penalty for the erring PIOs / FAAs of IOC in his decision of 28th September 2006 for the reasons best known to him. 18. Having seen the state of affairs at CIC myself, *I strongly apprehend that hundreds of such cases may be lying unattended / unregistered at CIC * as *CIC has no system of acknowledging the cases filed by RTI applicants.* 19. During the last more than two years, I had been repeatedly informing and *requesting DoPT / CVC / PMO that CIC has become a hotbed of corrupt practices*. No corrective action seems to have been taken to contain corrupt practices / malpractices. In view of the above, *I hereby request for vigilance investigation, on priority, into the registration of RTI cases by CIC of RTI applicants from all over India* and their hearing by CIC, by violating principles of justice, to give justice overdue to the RTI applicants. While concluding I wish to quote Mr Wajahat Habibullah -"Sorry! I'm not in the business of getting you 'justice'. That is the business of the courts. Ican only get you information. Wajahat ." Submitted for kind consideration in the interest of RTI applicants of India, in the interest of saving the Right to Information Act 2005 and in the interest of transparency and accountability in public administration. With warm regards, -- Babubhai Vaghela, RTI Appellant, 202, Sarap, Opp Navjivan Press, Off Ashram Road, Ahmedabad - 380 014 M - 94276 08632 Ph - 079 - 2754 0128 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Babubhai Vaghela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, May 17, 2008 at 11:27 AM Subject: Further to Request for hearing of 37 second appeals / complaints preferred against Indian Oil Corporation Limited To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shri S Palaniswamy, PPS to Secretary, CIC New Delhi Dear Sir, I hereby seek your kind assistance for requesting, on my behalf, to Prof M M Ansari to expedite the response in the matter at his earliest. I shall be grateful to you for the same. With warm regards, -- Babubhai Vaghela, RTI Applicant, 202, Sarap, Opp Navjivan Press, Off Ashram Road, Ahmedabad - 380 014 M - 94276 08632 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Babubhai Vaghela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:58 PM Subject: Request for hearing of 37 second appeals / complaints preferred against Indian Oil To: Prof M M Ansari Information Commissioner CIC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Prof M M Ansari, Information Commissioner, Central Information Commission, New Delhi Dear Sir, Your kind attention is invited to the following: 1. Letter no. CIC/CPIO/2008/306 Dated 4th April 2008. 2. List showing 37 second appeals / complaints filed against IOC HO Mumbai and IOC CO New Delhi. 3. Your decision dated 28th September 2006. 4. Reply from IOC dated 18th October 2006. Copies of the above referred references are enclosed for kind perusal. Requested information, in all the cases, has not been received and I hereby seek review / re-hearing of the cases with decision for the 37 cases. Submitted for kind consideration and feedback in the matter at an early date. With warm regards, -- Babubhai Vaghela, RTI Appellant, 202, Sarap, Opp Navjivan Press, Off Ashram Road, Ahmedabad - 380 014 M - 94276 08632 Ph - 079 - 2754 0128 -- Babubhai Vaghela 202, Sarap, Opp Navjivan Press, Off Ashram Road, Ahmedabad - 380 014 M - 94276 08632 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
