The Indian Express: Chandigarh: Saturday, June 23, 2018.
Amid refusal
by 33 IAS Haryana officers for sharing their property details under the RTI Act
and 36 other bureaucrats’ consent to give the information, the State
Information Commission will hear the case on June 26, resuming the hearing
after six years.
According to
RTI activist P P Kapoor, the previous hearing in the commission had taken place
in February 2012 but “it was adjourned for indefinite period giving reference
of a similar case pending before the Punjab and Haryana High Court”.
Now, the
Commission has informed Kapoor it has re-constituted the division bench
comprising Yoginder Paul Gupta and Hemant Atri, both State Information
Commissioners.
Kapoor had
approached the office of Haryana chief secretary on December 16, 2009, seeking
information regarding property returns of all IAS officers, which they had
given at the time of their appointments and they filed for the year 2008-09.
According to Kapoor, the government had not provided the property details of
the bureaucrats despite majority of them giving their consent for the same.
According to
Kapoor, as many as 33 IAS officers including A Mona Sreenivas, Abhilaksh Likhi,
Dheera Khandelwal, RS Gujral (now retired) and Krishna Mohan (now retired) had
expressed their unwillingness to disclose their annual property returns.
However, IAS
officers like PK Das, V Umashankar, Ashok Khemka, Amit Agrawal and Samit Mathur
(now retired) had informed the government that they did not have any objection
in sharing the property details.
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