The Tribune: Chandigarh: Friday, May 12, 2017.
The State
Information Commission (SIC) has held PIO, office of the ADGP (Admn), Police
Headquarters, guilty of not providing information under the RTI Act and slapped
a penalty of Rs 2,000 as compensation to the appellant.
An official
spokesperson said the orders was pronounced by SS Channy, CIC, during the
hearing of an appeal in the case of Arshdeep Singh Sivia of Chandigarh, who had
filed an RTI application on May 16 last year but the requisite information has
not been supplied to him so far.
The CIC held
that office of Police Headquarters have sought adjournment of the case a number
of times to enable them to supply the information that has not been supplied to
the appellant till date causing undue harassment and embarrassment to the
appellant.
The
commission slapped a penalty of Rs 2,000 on the police department.