Times
of India: Chennai: Friday, 17 April 2015.
A public
works department (PWD) official, G Parthiban, has threatened an RTI activist
who in a plea had sought information about the public servant.
The activist
A B Saravana Babu, a lawyer in the Madras high court, recorded the abusive
conversation and lodged a complaint at the high court police station. Police
have registered a case and issued a community service register.
Babu said it
was very unfair of the PWD official to access an RTI petition sent to a police
officer in Thanjavur. He suspected the police officials of informing the PWD
official about the RTI plea.
Saravana Babu
has asked in his RTI whether the PWD official was booked in any case and
remanded in prison in 2014.
"I was
told that the PWD official was arrested in connection with a case in 2014 and
he was in prison for a few days. I was surprised to know why the officials
didn't take departmental action against him," the activist said.
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