The
Times of India: Pune: Saturday, November 17, 2012.
The Pune
district consumer redressal forum has recently ordered the Directorate of
Technical Education Department (DTED) to pay a compensation of Rs 10,000 to an
RTI applicant H R Kakade a former employee of the Institute of Technology run
by city-based Deccan Education Society (DES) for the delay in providing
information.
The forum
held that the applicant was a consumer of DTED and ordered the department to
provide information. The compensation was given for causing physical and mental
harassment to Kakade.
The
department had failed to provide information to the applicant when Kakade had
filed the first appeal under the RTI Act, 2005. Kakade moved the forum instead
of filing a second appeal before the state information commission.
Kakade
submitted before the forum that the department had restrained him from making a
second appeal which had caused him physical and mental harassment.
The forum
president Anjali Deshmukh and member S K Kapase directed the department to
provide information to him within six weeks free of cost from the date of order
for failing to provide information under the RTI Act.
Kakade had
sought information pertaining to out of turn promotions of some of his
colleagues under the RTI Act on November 25, 2011.
The
department's public Information officer M D Misal admitted before the forum
that Kakade was refused information as the same was available on its website.
Misal had
pleaded to dismiss Kakade's case with directions that he should approach the
state information commission, but his plea was rejected by the forum.
.JPG)
.JPG)
