Times
of India: Mumbai: Thursday, 31 December 2015.
Four junior
engineers of the Mira Bhayander Municipal Corporation (MBMC) have been fined Rs
1.20 lakh by the State Information Commissioner for not giving information to
an applicant under the Right To Information (RTI) Act.
The
complainant Santosh Tiwari had on February 25, 2014 filed four applications
before the MBMC town planning department under the RTI Act. A month later when
he did not get a response, he went into appeal before the municipality. When
his appeal was not heard, he went into second appeal before the Konkan
Commission, Belapur on May 2, 2014.
The SIC
Thanksy Thekkekara directed the RTI officers Sandeep Salve, Deepak Jadhav,
Vikas Parab and Manik Choudhary to provide the information sought by Tiwari.
The officers were issued show cause notices too.
On November
26, 2015 when Tiwari failed to get any information, he again approached the SIC
who imposed a fine on the officers. Salve and Jadhav were fined Rs 40,000 each,
Parab was fined Rs 30,000 while Choudhary was fined Rs 10,000. The amount will
be deducted from their monthly salary within 10 months.
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