In a fatal body blow for RTI activists and Whistleblowers, the Chief Information Commissioner Mr Wajahat Habibullah has declined to dispose of RTI appeals involving grave accusations of corruption.
In a recent landmark decision by a Inspector Jawahar Lal a Whistleblower of Delhi Police who has raised serious allegations of corruption against his seniors (and for which a personal weapon was allowed to him) in RTI proceedings; Mr Habibullah held as follows- "Under the circumstances, any decision on this subject under the RTI Act is likely to be infructuous, since this amounts to grave accusation of corruption and is no longer a request for information." Sarbajit
