So the Penalty mafia strikes again !!! I think I'll have to publish the First Appeal below:
The appellant had asked for a catalogue(s) of all records of the CIC duly indexed in a manner and form to facilitate the right to information. The reply of PIO was that CIC has no records to be catalogued or indexed. Hence the Appeal, whose order now scrupulousy avoids /evades mentioning the information requested and reply of CPIO/CIC Sarbajit "TO: Central Information Commission 2nd floor, B-Wing, August Kranti Bhawan New Delhi 110066 Date: 08-Dec-2008 Kind Attn; Shri Mohd Haleem Khan, First Appellate Authority/CIC Sir /Madam, SUB: RTI Act and letter No. CIC/CPIO/2008/1591 dt 06-11-2008 I refer to the above cited letter 5/11/2008 (received on 11/11/2008) and beg to appeal (impugn) it as follows:- 1) That the information I sought was very specific and is information to be mandatorily maintained by your Public Authority in terms of section 4(1)(a) of RTI Act which reads as follows:- "4(1) Every public authority shall— (a) maintain all its records duly catalogued and indexed in a manner and the form which facilitates the right to information under this Act and ensure that all records that are appropriate to be computerised are, within a reasonable time and subject to availability of resources, computerised and connected through a network all over the country on different systems so that access to such records is facilitated;" As such I am unable to understand how CPIO/CIC can say that no such catalogue of CIC's records exists. 2) That I perceive the reply from CPIO to be evasive and malafide, so as to cover up CIC's self evident failure to comply with RTI Law, and for I am unable to access the same on website of CIC - constraining me to formally apply u/s 6, whereas the said information is to be provided to me proactively / suo-moto free of cost u/s 4 RTI Act in any case. 3) That information be now provided to Free of Cost and immediately and without further delay Yours faithfully (Ravinder Balwani) " On 1/21/09, C K Jam <[email protected]> wrote: > Mr. Sarbajit, > > Your long and keenly awaited order of the FAA is now on the CIC website: > > http://cic.gov.in/CIC-Orders/FAAD_19012009_01.pdf > > RTIwanted > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rti_india/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rti_india/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
