Hindustan Times: Chandigarh: Saturday, July 29, 2017.
Punjab chief
information commissioner SS Channy found that the appellant knew that principal
Manjit Kaur was a cancer patient and with a sole purpose to harass her, he had
been using the RTI to submit umpteen applications to the school principal
herself or through the offices of district education officers Ropar.
The State Information
Commission (SIC) has barred a retired teacher Jaspreet Singh of Mohalla Shekha
in Ropar City from seeking information from the education department under the
Right to Information (RTI) Act, saying that he intended to use the information
to harass his former school principal.
In response
to Jaspreet’s plea before the SIC claiming that he was being denied
information, Punjab chief information commissioner SS Channy said, “The
appellant has worked as a Punjabi lecturer in Government Girls Senior Secondary
School, Ropar, under Manjit Kaur, the principal. The information he is seeking
reflect that he holds a personal grudge against her.”
Channy found
that the appellant knew that principal Manjit Kaur was a cancer patient and
with a sole purpose to harass her, he had been using the RTI to submit umpteen
applications to the principal herself or through the offices of district
education officers Ropar.
It was also
found that the information he sought was mostly vague, relating to the
Principal or her school like copies of time-tables of the school, copies of
time-tables of teachers, copies of attendance registers, copies of letters
issued by the government, copies of results, amount of medical reimbursement
claimed by him, copies of pro forma filled in by him, while applying for
medical leave.
According to
Channy, the appellant was a cantankerous and a continuous trouble maker for the
public authority and the commission.
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