Business Standard: Patna: Friday,
October 21, 2016.
Bihar State
Information Commission today imposed fines on four Public Information Officers
(PIOs) for not furnishing information or not doing it timely to applicants
under the RTI Act.
The fines
ranging from Rs 10,000 to Rs 25,000 were slapped on two Block Development
Officers (BDOs), one Circle Officer (CO) and one Station House Officer (SHO)
for either not furnishing information or failure to provide timely information
to the applicants.
The four
officials are also PIOs.
The case
pertains to 2012-13 and 2013-14 when the applicants had sought information from
these PIOs, the State Information Commission said in a statement.
Information
Commissioner V K Verma imposed a fine of Rs 25,000 on Danapur CO in Patna
district for not furnishing information.
He also
slapped a fine of Rs 25,000 on Barauni Refinery police station SHO for his
failure to provide timely information to the applicant.
The
Commission fined Rs 20,000 on Kusheshwar Asthan BDO in Darbhanga district for
not providing timely information and imposed a fine of Rs 10,000 on Goh BDO in
Aurangabad district for not providing information to the applicant.
The
Commission said that copies of the order have been sent to District Magistrates
of the four districts so that the amount of fine can be deducted from the PIOs'
salaries.
The matter
would be heard on April 3 next year.