Anju Agnihotri Chaba : Wed Jun 16 2010 : Jalandhar:
The state information commissioner has imposed a penalty of Rs 25,000 on a tehsildar for not providing information under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. The amount will be deducted from the salary of Tehsildar, Jalandhar-1, Rajiv Verma.
Complainant Rabinder Singh had filed an application on February 10, 2009, seeking information on the tenure of Verma’s predecessor Harminder Singh and the number of RTI applications receive and dispose of by him.
With no reply in over three months, the complainant appealed to the deputy commissioner of Jalandhar on May 18, 2009. But despite orders from the DC, he was not provided with the information.
In April this year, the complainant finally moved the State Information Commission, which issued a notice to the tehsildar on April 26.
With Verma, through his reader, presenting incomplete information before the commission, it asked him to personally appear on June 10. The tehsildar, however, did not comply and sent his reader, who again provided incomplete information and failed to justify the delay in providing information, which should have been supplied within 30 days.
Information Commissioner Kulbir Singh imposed a penalty of Rs 25,000 and mentioned in the order that the DC should ensure this amount was deducted from the salary of the respondent. The case was adjourned to July 15 for further proceedings.
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