Kanwal Speaks - January 09, 2015 at 07:13PM

ATTENTION RTI INFORMATION SEEKERS & ALL FELLOW CITIZENS RTI Act, 2005, also provides us a remedy as an applicant to directly file a complaint case u/s 18 (1) (a) to directly file a complaint case with concerned Central or State Information Commission when we were not able able to submit our request to the concerned PIO, reason could involve the serious ones like non-appointment of PIO or a denial by the PIO to accept a RTI request, or any other acceptable by the law. I personally had an experience very recently when a PIO malafidely denied to accept my RTI request sent via registered post at his office the and was tried to be delivered at his office by postal authorities. I was tracking the registered post through Internet and when it showed that it was UNDELIVERED with reason unknown and post office authorities were about to dispatch it back to my address as undelivered letter, I approached immediately to all the concerned authorities in postal department from Senior Superintendent of Posts from both the cities of sender and addressee to top Chief Post Master General of the Region and Deputy Director General (PG & QA), of India Post in New Delhi, in order to ensure the delivery of my RTI application sent via mean of registered post and for providing me the inquiry report why is entered in system as undelivered. After multiple communications with number of authorities in India Post and their multiple forwarding of my complaints at all the concerned levels in the department, I finally got a written email from the Senior Superintendent of Posts from the city of respondent PIO, that my RTI application was tried to delivered to the addressee by concerned Station Post Master under the direct order of his office but the addressee denied to receive it. This written communication is a piece of evidence which I got to prove that the concerned PIO is malafidely denying to accept my RTI application. With this prove in hand I have directly filed a complaint case in State Information Commission Punjab u/s 18 (1) (a) of RTI Act, 2005 against the respondent PIO. As per the recent information received, the case has been prima-facie accepted and registered by the SIC Punjab and provided with a registration number based upon the complaint and evidence documents I have submitted, and that too without even completion of any wait period of 30 days time limit from the date of sending of application, as in this case the RTI application was malafidely and deliberately denied to be accepted so thus no applicability of wait period as per the RTI Act, 2005. This case is yet to be enlisted in cause-list for hearing in front of assigned Honourable Information Commission and see its fate, but this whole process of registration of case has opened new doors for RTI information seekers and activists due to its uniqueness of its own.

by अहं सत्य



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