The Times of India: Mumbai: Saturday, June 16, 2012.
An information officer of the Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporation (UMC) has been fined Rs 25,000 for withholding information sought by a retired teacher under the Right To Information (RTI) Act. Kumar Sukheja, a retired teacher of a UMC school wanted to develop a plot in Ulhasnagar in 2007. However due to illness, he postponed the plan. In 2011, when he tried to develop the plot, UMC officials refuse to renew the plan.
On April 2, 2011, Sukheja submitted an application to the town planning department of UMC under the RTI Act to get information about renewals between November 2010 to April 2011. The application was received by the information officer on the same day.
However, when Sukheja did received the data within the stipulated period, he made his first appeal to a higher officer.
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