CIC directs

The Sangai Express: Imphal: Monday, December 28, 2015.

State Chief Information Commissioner Th Ibobi has directed Under Secretary (MOBC) L Ibeyaima Devi to furnish him an affidavit and lodge an FIR at the police station concerned in connection with missing of a file regarding short tenders of different schemes taken up by MOBC Department during 2010-11 and 2011-12 .

A reliable source told The Sangai Express that the directive came after one Ayekpam Keshorjit s/o (L) A Kunjo of Haobam Marak Irom Leikai filed an RTI application seeking information on the schemes taken up by the Directorate in the past few years.

The RTI application was submitted on December 10 last year.

Although Keshorjit received the reply of his application on May 27 this year, information about the short tenders of different schemes taken up by the Department during 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 were missing, the source said.

As such, on June 9 this year, he again filed a complaint at the Manipur Information Centre stating that some important informations were missing.

Following this complaint, the Commission directed the SPIO/US of MOBC and FAA/Secretary of MOBC to provide the information to the applicant within 15 days.

However, the respondents did not comply with the directive of the Manipur Information Commission, the source said.

As such, the applicant had to submit another rejoinder on the matter to the Chief Information Commissioner of Manipur Information Commission on June 28 this year.

Upon perusal of records and earlier proceedings of the case, Chief Information Commissioner Th Ibobi directed the SPIO/MOBC to furnish an affidavit declaring 'lost' of the file in question and lodge an FIR at the police station concerned to investigate the matter and identify the person responsible for missing of the file.