Times of India: Jaipur: Monday, July 09, 2018.
Rajasthan
State Information Commission (RSIC) has refused to provide information under
RTI Act to former BJP leader and MLA from Sanganer Ghanshyam Tiwari regarding
removal of his security.
Tiwari’s
security was removed by the state government last year after intelligence
department report stated that the MLA doesn't require any security cover. He
had filed an RTI application to find out from the intelligence department the
reasons as to why his security was removed. His application was rejected by the
RSIC on the grounds that intelligence department doesn’t come under the ambit
of RSIC.
Tiwari was
given police security by the Congress government in 2008. Under RTI, Tiwari had
asked questions a copy of each intelligence department report and state
government order removing his security along with order of the Congress
government granting him security.
After the
information was denied in the first appellate, he filed an appeal in RSIC. The
former BJP leader contended that information is related to his human rights and
should be granted. “Since the security cover was removed he was attacked for
the five times. The matter is related to his human rights and RTI act allows
access to the information related to life,” said applicant in his application.
Ashotosh
Sharma, information commissioner, RSIC says that under the Section 24 of RTI
act 2005 information falling under intelligence department cannot be released.
“The advocates of Tiwari have failed to prove that denying of information has
violated his human right. The matter is disposed-off,” said Sharma. Notably,
the security cover was removed by the Raje government after intelligence report
stated that security is not required for the leader. The cover was removed
allegedly due to Tiwari’s difference with Raje. The former has exited from the
BJP and floated a new political outfit.
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