Indian
Express: Allahabad: Wednesday, October 31, 2012.
The Allahabad
High Court on Tuesday directed the Chief Medical Officer of Ballia district to
be present in person at the next date of hearing in connection with a petition
alleging delay in providing information sought under the Right to Information
(RTI) Act.
The court has
fixed November 7 as the next date of hearing. A division bench of Justices
Vineet Saran and Mushaffey Ahmed passed the order on a petition filed by Ved
Prakash, a lawyer in Ballia district court.
Shailesh
Kumar Tripathi, counsel for the petitioner, said: “Our main prayer is that the
information sought by the petitioner should be made available to him within the
statutory period. Also, we have prayed for direction from the high court to
expeditiously dispose of our second appeal pending before the authority
concerned.”
The court
directed the CMO’s personal appearance following no response from him despite
being given chances, Tripathi added.
Tripathi said
on November 24 last year, Ved Prakash had filed an RTI application with the CMO
seeking information on the charges, if any, which people were supposed to pay
for getting birth and death certificates issued. However, the information did
not reach him within the stipulated time.
Subsequently,
the petitioner first filed the appeal with the District Magistrate, the
appellate authority. Following no response, the petitioner approached the
second appellate authority, Commissioner (Azamgarh division) for second appeal.
The appeal is still pending.
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