Dear Mr Habibullah, After the brilliant victory (aka "self goal") CIC scored over DopT over the "file notings" non-issue, could you kindly inquire into this little gem *STILL* on the DoPT's website and sort out the ACR versus APAR debate once and for all.
http://persmin.nic.in/RTICorner_QuestionAnswerBank_CS.asp "In the light of O.M.No. 10/20/2006-IR dated 21st September, 2007 regarding disclosure of ACR under the RTI Act,2005, the public authority is not under obligation to disclose ACRs of any employee to the employee himself or to any other person in as much as disclosure of ACRs is protected by clause (j) of sub-section (1) of Section 8 of the RTI Act and an ACR is a confidential document disclosure of which is protected by the Official Secret Act,1923." Sarbajit Roy
