Dear Veeresh Lets ignore the jokers - CICs are not worried about militant geriatrics. They are worried about people with guns walking into their (highly insecure) offices and blowing their heads off. (See the famous SACKHIM poll - 85% of members polled wanted to bump off a "corrupt" IC and are prepared to put their money where their mouth is).
Watch this Video: http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=bP295xpH15A "Indian Gun Control enabled Mumbai Massacre" Sarbajit --- In [email protected], "v4veeresh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Krishnaraj Rao" > <sahasipadyatri@> wrote: > > Dear RTI Users, Information Seekers and Fellow Citizens, > > Today's Mumbai Mirror has a news item on page 7. Please read it for > its humour value. The joke is that after a non-violent dharna > (sit-down strike) that we staged at Maharashtra State Information > Commission on the night of 26th November (coincidentally the night the > terror strike began), Chief SIC Dr Suresh Joshi says he feels > threatened, and wants police protection. > > The bare facts of the incident are as follows: At 6.00 pm, the > activists accompanied RTI applicant Rupchand Laungani to his meeting. > To give the PIO (Additional Commissioner of Police, Bandra Division) > one more chance to represent, Dr Joshi intended to call another 2nd > appeal hearing. However, as the 2nd appeal had already been held on > 15th September, the 65-year-old Mr Laungani strongly protested. Since > many weeks, Dr Joshi had been promising to give the orders, and > delaying , saying, "come tomorrow". So Mr Laungani was taken by > surprise when Dr Joshi abruptly shifted his stand and said he > wanted to hold another hearing! When the activists reasoned with him, > Dr Suresh Joshi backtracked, and agreed to promptly handwrite his > order before leaving for home. The impasse that followed was because > the activists insisted that a Xerox copy of the handwritten order, > whether rough or fair, must be provided the same evening. Dr Joshi was > totally unwilling to reveal his handwritten order, and insisted on > giving it typed the next morning. So we all decided to stay overnight > at the Information commission until he gave us the order. (As it > turned out later, the Chief SIC has passed a dubious and vague > order... again, for the hundredth time.) > > Now read the news item in Mumbai Mirror: > http://www.mumbaimirror.com/article/2/20081204200812040342592194af80c0/Info-Commissioner-wants-protection-from-RTI-activists#cmt%23cmt > > If you feel we were wrong to act the way we did, please write me a > stinker. However, if you feel that putting citizen pressure on > Information Commissioners to make them accountable is necessary and > justified, please write an appropriate comment to the editor of Mumbai > Mirror at the link above. > > Warmly, > Krish >
