Times
of India: Chandigarh: Tuesday, 28 July 2015.
State
Information Commission (SIC) has ordered an inquiry after employees of the
state government's finance department and local audit unit allegedly provided
wrong information to an RTI applicant. The commission has asked the state
additional chief secretary (finance) to take action against the erring
officials after ascertaining who is guilty.
Ambala
resident Satish Sharma, who wanted information related to change of name of
state transport department, had alleged that the staff kept him harassing by
transferring his RTI application and supplying incomplete and misguiding
information.
"It is
an ideal case of misinterpretation by sheer arrogance and negligence amounting
to denial of information and harassment of the appellant for more than one
year," observed information commissioner Hemant Atri in a recent order.
According to
the commission, although the departmental officials tried to reply but they did
so without proper application of mind and incomplete records. "The
departmental officials, instead of going through the application with
seriousness that it deserved, tried to pass it on each other and kept on
delaying/misguiding the appellant," Atri maintained.
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