Oherald: Goa: Tuesday, February
14, 2017.
The High
Court of Bombay at Goa has set aside an order of the Goa State Information
Commission (GSIC) that had turned down a plea seeking details of Goa police
officers’ annual property returns. In 2009, the GSIC had dismissed an appeal
filed by RTI activist Kashinath Shetye that sought information about the annual
property returns filed by police officers.
Shetye, in
2008 had sought information from the public information officer at the police
headquarters about the annual property returns filed by the deputy
superintendents and other superior officers (in traffic matters) from the year
1998. This information was denied under Section 8(1) (j) of the RTI Act by the
PIO and the first appellate authority.
Subsequently,
Shetye approached GSIC that dismissed his appeal. “The manner in which the
information was sought and since there is no nexus of the information required
of the annual returns of all deputy superintendents of police and of the
officers above them, with the rest of information which refers only to traffic
matters, the appellant is not entitled for the information sought,” the order,
dated April 28, 2009, had stated.
Shetye then
moved the high court challenging the order. The bench has now asked the
Inspector General of Police to hear the plea.
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