The
Asian Age: New Delhi: Monday, 23 November 2015.
The Central
Information Commission (CIC) is bombarded with a lot of work these days.
Courtesy, a former Indian Air Force officer, who has over filed over 3,500 RTI
petitions.
Consequently,
the Commission had to group his pleas under various common points before giving
a verdict on each issue even as it underlined that there was a need to consider
the feasibility of having some legal filter based on objective criteria to sift
those applications that may appear to be needlessly repetitive.
In its order
to be placed before the Chief Information Commission (CIC), it also said to
device a mechanism to handle applications appearing to be “vexatious” even as
it highlighted that the RTI Act has not defined the term.
To handle
this load of applications from a single person, the Commission had to devote
one person in the registry for only opening the envelops of appeals from
Sanjeev Sharma, the ex-IAF officer who himself claims to have filed over 6,000
RTI applications with the IAF, CIC sources said.
“The
appellant is a retired officer of the Indian Air Force... On July 15, 2015,
when the hearing commenced, the number of appeals filed by the appellant as
registered with the registry of this Commission, was 3,588,” chief information
commissioner Vijai Sharma noted.
He also noted
that the appellant indicated during the hearings that he was still filing RTI
applications and will continue to file them. “The appellant was steadfast in
underlining that much wrong has been done to him by the respondents and they
should pay attention and do justice to him,” Mr Sharma noted.
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