Rising Kashmir: Jammu: Thursday, May 02, 2013.
RTI Activist
Deepak Sharma has filed an RTI application to Ministry of Home Affairs asking
information regarding the Chinese intrusion into Ladakh to know the Government
of India’s stand on Chinese intrusion into the Indian territory.
As per a
press release, Sharma said that from the last few days, on one hand it has been
widely reported that the Chinese army had intruded 19 kms deep inside Indian
territory which is a very serious concern and on the other hand Prime Minister
terms it as a ‘Local Issue’.
Furthermore
Home Minister Shushil Kumar Shinde has termed the intruded land as ‘No Man’s
Land’, Press release added.
‘People wants
to know the truth as they have the right to be informed’, said Deepak. In his
RTI application, the activist has asked the government about the total area
that has reportedly been intruded by the Chinese Army and whether the intruded
territory is ‘No Man’s Land’ as said by the Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde.
Stating
purpose behind filing the RTI application, the activist cleared that his
intention is to get the information as well as to sensitize those at the helm
of affairs about the sensitivity of the issue.
It is the
duty of government to provide information to its citizens regarding this
serious issue of national interest, he said.
The activist
has also submitted that since the asked information concerns the life and
liberty, hence the application has been filed under Life and Liberty Clause of
the RTI Act.
It is
pertinent to mention here that under the Life and Liberty clause of the RTI
act, the Public Information Officer has to provide information to the applicant
within 48 hours after receiving the RTI application.
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