Any idea whether DHC has fixed a separate fee for 2nd appeals too ?

Sidharth Misra

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 8:38 AM, sroy1947 <[email protected]> wrote:
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> http://cic.gov.in/CIC-Orders/WB-07082009-02.pdf
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> "Sub sec. (1) of Sec. 6 speaks of fees to be prescribed to accompany the
> request made by a person who desires to obtain information to a CPIO or
> CAPIO. Similarly u/s 7(1) an application made u/s 6 is to be responded on 
> payment of the fee prescribed. There is indeed no fee mandated in the law for 
> appeal u/s 19 (1) or (3). However u/s 28(2) (iv) the Competent Authority has 
> the discretion to provide for any other matter which is not only required to 
> be, but may be prescribed, as underlined by us in the quote above. In this 
> case, therefore, the High Court of Delhi is well within its authority to 
> prescribe such a fee, keeping in mind only the requirement of proviso to 
> Sub-Section (5) of Sec 7.that the fee is reasonable inasmuch as it may be in 
> reference to Sec 6 (1) or
> sub-sections (1) and (5) of Sec 7."
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