Money control: Rajasthan: Tuesday, July 10, 2018.
Rajasthan
Information Commission has denied information on withdrawal of the state
security cover to former BJP leader and Sanganer MLA Ghanshyam Tiwari saying
the subjects linked to the state police's intelligence unit are exempted from
the RTI Act.
Dismissing
separate appeals by Tiwari and his son, a bench of Chief Information
Commissioner Suresh Chaudhary and Information Commissioner Ashutosh Sharma said
that intelligence unit of the police and its activities does not fall within
the ambit of the Right to Information Act.
Accordingly,
the Police Department's decision against providing requisite information is
right, the bench said.
Tiwari and
his family members were provided security cover by erstwhile Congress
government but the present BJP government had withdrawn the facility after
review of threat perception to the state-protectees by the police in 2015.
The MLA had
alleged that the security was withdrawn due to his differences with Chief
Minister Vasundhara Raje and had filed RTI applications with Jaipur and Sikar
police seeking details and documents pertaining to the decision of security
withdrawal.
The police
had denied information following which Tiwari and his son Ashish Tiwari had
filed second appeal with the State Information Commission.
The
Commission in its recent order observed that the counsel for Tiwari failed to
establish how their human rights were compromised on the security withdrawal.
After a
festering discord with the Chief Minister, Tiwari had resigned from the BJP
last month and formed a new political party.
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