Indian Express: Pune: Thursday,
September 22, 2016.
State
Information Commissioner (SIC) Ravindra Jadhav has slapped a fine of Rs 3,000
against the village development officer of Haveli for failing to provide
Section 4 information to an applicant. Jadhav gave this order while hearing an
appeal filed by Madhukar Pandit, a resident of Haveli.
Pandit had
asked for Section 4 information regarding the office of the village development
officer of the Wagholi village in Haveli taluka. During the hearing of the
appeal, when the SIC asked the information officer on why the information was
not given on time, both the public information officer (PIO) and the First
Appellate Authority (FAA) had no answers. The minutes of the hearing shows that
the PIO agreed that he had not sent the information on time.
Summing up
the case, Jadhav pointed out how this was a brazen flouting of the RTI Act.
Jadhav then went on to fine the PIO Rs 3,000 which is to be recovered from the
pay of the officer.
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