Times of India: Panchakula: Tuesday, June 13, 2017.
The state
information commission, Haryana, has issued a show-cause notice to assistant
commissioner of police (headquarters) here for not providing information under
the RTI Act to a local resident of Sector 16 and also asked him to appear
before it.
According to
a complaint filed by Lalit Gupta, an advocate, Gupta in his complaint informed
the commission that he had purchased a second hand Aviator from Vinod and
Shiva, dealers based in Chandigarh.He alleged that the delivery was made in
Panchkula through an impersonator, who posed as the original owner. Gupta
further said that the papers were found fake and the dealers could not provide
original papers for getting the vehicle transferred in his name. On June 20,
2016, Gupta made a complaint to the Sector 16 police post Panchkula, but to no
avail.
On August 29,
2016, Gupta asked for information under the RTI Act regarding the status of his
complaint and statements recorded but the cops failed to provide the same to
Gupta and on October 15, 2016, he filed an appeal before the commissioner, who
forwarded it to DCP, Panchkula. Following this, on November 25, 2016, the ACP
provided some information to the complainant almost after 90 days. On December
1, 2016, the DCP ordered that Gupta be provided with the information but the
ACP failed to do so.
Gupta then
filed a second appeal on December 30, 2016, before the commission, mentioning
that the ACP wilfully did not supply the information.
State
information commissioner Samir Mathur in the order stated that the ACP had
given the assurance that he would provide the information by May 31 to Gupta.
The commission noted that there had been delay in providing information and
when provided it was incomplete. Therefore, it asked the SPIO to reply to the
show-cause notice by June 15 and appear before it on June 29.
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