Times of India: Chennai: Sunday, 30 June 2024.
The state information
commission has asked former deputy commissioner of police for T Nagar, D Ashok
Kumar, to explain why he let an assistant commissioner reply to a Right to
Information (RTI) Act query when it was his responsibility, as public
information officer, to furnish information. It also awarded ₹10,000
compensation to an RTI applicant.
Chief information commissioner Shakheel Akhter, in his June 20 order, ordered Ashok Kumar to reply within 15 days why action should not be initiated against him under RTI Act Sections 20(1) and 20(2). He mandated the incumbent PIO (deputy commissioner) to get the response from Ashok Kumar and submit it to the commission.
City-based RTI activist Kasimayan in 2019 filed an RTI plea before the city police commissioner seeking an action taken report on his complaint dated 2016. He also sought to verify the documents regarding action initiated against Ashok Nagar police station officers as recommended by then deputy secretary M Araselvi and take a copy.
While the petition was forwarded to the T Nagar deputy commissioner, the petitioner filed the first appeal since he did not get information within the stipulated time. The same year, he received a communication from the assistant commissioner of Ashok Nagar, asking him to visit the station and verify the documents.
Kasimayan immediately filed a complaint before the commission but it came up for hearing after five years. Ashok Nagar range assistant commissioner Aldrin appeared on behalf of T Nagar deputy commissioner and Kasimayan appeared through videoconferencing.
The petitioner informed CIC that he was made to wait in Ashok Nagar police station for four hours in 2019 and sent off without any information. He also alleged that the police officers negotiated a compromise with him and that the information he sought was sent to him in 2022.
Recording the submissions, the CIC pronounced his order.
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| Thiru Md.Shakeel Akhter, I.P.S(Retired), Tamil Nadu State Chief Information Commissioner |
Chief information commissioner Shakheel Akhter, in his June 20 order, ordered Ashok Kumar to reply within 15 days why action should not be initiated against him under RTI Act Sections 20(1) and 20(2). He mandated the incumbent PIO (deputy commissioner) to get the response from Ashok Kumar and submit it to the commission.
City-based RTI activist Kasimayan in 2019 filed an RTI plea before the city police commissioner seeking an action taken report on his complaint dated 2016. He also sought to verify the documents regarding action initiated against Ashok Nagar police station officers as recommended by then deputy secretary M Araselvi and take a copy.
While the petition was forwarded to the T Nagar deputy commissioner, the petitioner filed the first appeal since he did not get information within the stipulated time. The same year, he received a communication from the assistant commissioner of Ashok Nagar, asking him to visit the station and verify the documents.
Kasimayan immediately filed a complaint before the commission but it came up for hearing after five years. Ashok Nagar range assistant commissioner Aldrin appeared on behalf of T Nagar deputy commissioner and Kasimayan appeared through videoconferencing.
The petitioner informed CIC that he was made to wait in Ashok Nagar police station for four hours in 2019 and sent off without any information. He also alleged that the police officers negotiated a compromise with him and that the information he sought was sent to him in 2022.
Recording the submissions, the CIC pronounced his order.
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