Dear Mr Vikram,You are absolutely correct. The same view was very lucidly explained by the Allahabad High Court:http://www.rtiindia.info/downloads/p13_sectionid/2/p13_fileid/25 But, as usual, who will "bell the cat" in the SIC/CIC ?RTIwanted --- On Thu, 3/26/09, Vikram Simha <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Vikram Simha <[email protected]> Since the Act allows the Complaint Mechanism in six circumstances , the interpretation that every Application which qualifies for the six circumstances do pass through the FAA . To my mind Sec 18(1) has an very siginificant relevance and hence the Confers Powers to the Information Commission itself directly and not the FAA . [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
