Malay Bhattacharyya | 1 Jan 2010 04:38
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State information panel asks state to pay relief to top cop

 

State information panel asks state to pay relief to top cop

http://www.indianex press.com/ news/state- information- panel-asks- state-to- pay-relief- to-top-cop/ 562126/0

Shiv Sahay Singh Posted online: Friday , Jan 01, 2010 at 0342 hrs

Kolkata : The West Bengal Information Commission has ordered the state home (political) department to pay a compensation of Rs 50,000 to Nazrul Islam, the additional director general of police (traffic), for failing to provide him the information he had sought under the RTI Act about the chief minister’s noting on a complaint he had earlier sent to him about a few senior police officers.

Islam, however, has shot off a letter to the state information officer saying the compensation amount should be paid to him by the State Public Information officer (SPIO) of the home department, and not the department itself, which will have to use taxpayers’ money for the purpose.

The order to state home department to pay the compensation to the police officer was given by the state Information Commission on December 15, which set a month’s deadline for the payment.

Islam’s ordeal began on June 4, 2007, when he filed an RTI seeking information on noting made by the chief minister on his letter of complaint against senior police officers and the action taken.

On May 23, 2006 Islam wrote to the CM saying a vigilance inquiry had been initiated against him for acting in an impartial way. The police officer urged the CM to act against the then Chief Secretary A K Deb, Vigilance Commissioner Shyamal Dutta and the then IG (Vigilance) M K Mukherjee for their alleged involvement in corrupt activities. The Calcutta High Court too had directed the state government to quash the Vigilance inquiry and slapped it with a fine of Re 1.

After Islam got no reply in the 30 days of filing RTI, he made the first appeal to the appellate authority the SPIO of home department. In August 2007, he filed a second appeal to the State Information Commission, but it did not take up any hearing on the issue. According to sources in the commission, Islam had given nearly two dozen reminders on the issue it.

On August 27, 2008, the Calcutta High Court directed to State Information Commission to dispose of all his appeals in four weeks.

Despite attempts by Islam and later by the Information Commission, the CM Secretariat said no record of the letter was kept. The home secretary said they had not also received the original application from the Director General of Police.

After a rap from the court, the state Information Commission finally started the proceeding and the order was given on December 15, 2009.

In its order, the commission rapped the home department. “The Commission considers that the home department, being one of the most important departments, shall have to pay a price for such procrastination,” it observed.

Islam, a 1981 batch IPS officer, however, is not satisfied and has written back to the State Information Commission saying it should make the SPIO of the home department pay the compensation amount.

“I request for an order that the amount should be deducted from the salary of the person responsible because the name of the department, which is inanimate, cannot be the offender and the person responsible is the offender,” Islam has said in his latest letter to the Information Commission.

Meanwhile, the West Bengal RTI Manch said it is a case of partisan act by the Commission. “I would not like to comment on the issue. Once an order is passed, this is best we could manage from the provision of the Act,” said Arun Bhattacharjee, the state chief Information Commissioner, when asked why a penalty was not slapped on the erring official.

 



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C K Jam | 1 Jan 2010 07:04
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Why is the moderator of this group getting special treatment at the CIC ?

 

Dear Mr Sarbajit,

It seems that you have either started a "free lubricant supply" business of your own or you have got into the good books of the CIC by floating a CIA (or Chinese) funded NGO !

How come CIC gives you special treatment and also ignores its own legal cell in the process ?

As per the following order of the CIC, your Complaint sent via email was taken cognizance of by the CIC:

http://cic.gov.in/CIC-Orders/SS-18112009-01.pdf

Sh. Sarbjit Roy filed a complaint via email before the Commission alleging that UIDAI, constituted by the notification of the Govt. of India , hence being a public authority has not implemented the RTI Act, 2005 and he requested the Commission to give appropriate directions to the UIDAI to implement the RTI Act in its true spirit. The Commission issued notices to the CPIO, Planning Commission and DG-UIDAI to appear before the Commission.

This clearly contravenes CIC's own directions:

http://cic.gov.in/CIC-Minutes/Minutes03032009.pdf

Agenda 1:- A note from legal cell as to whether a complaint  on an appeal received
through email is legally valid or should it be registered.
Commission directed that the citizens, filing their appeal/complaints on email be
advised to file their appeal / complaints online. They may do so by visiting the link
RTI Complaint & Appeal. This site is linked through CIC as well.
The officer of the Registry, who is designated for Public Authorities, may advise the
citizens regarding the same. Commission however clarified that the appeal/complaint
received through email cannot be registered unless filed online or otherwise.



Mr Sarbajit, as a initiator of the responsible RTI concept and in the interest of equitable awareness, please share with the group as to how are you suddenly getting such undue favors from the CIC ?

Note to CIC WH:
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Sir, the writ of our Moderator is restricted to this Yahoo group, of which you are a member. However, on the 2nd Floor of the AK Bhawan, you are the Boss !

PS: Is it Sarbjeet or Sarbjit or Sarbajit ?

Confused RTIwanted



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sarbajitr | 1 Jan 2010 08:02
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Re: Why is the moderator of this group getting special treatment at the CIC ?

 

Hi

I am Sarbajit (one who has conquered everything)

Funnily, this question was put to me too by the CIC when I sent my email complaint. I explained to them as follows:-

a) That "complaints" form the heart of the CIC's 'Soo-moto" powers - see 18(2).

b) That inquiry into "complaints" take precedence over disposal of appeals per the scheme of the RTI Act.

c) That there is no provision in the RTI Act to restrict in any way the form, nature or content of a complaint to the Commission (unlike appeals).

d) That I did not recognise the CIC's illegal Management Regulations which were drafted and approved by idiots (ie, legally deficient morons).

e) That whereas the duly notified rules for APPEALS to the CIC provided for "verification" (which requires a signature), there is no such requirements for complaints - which can be unsigned (and hence do not require a digital / electronic signature to be sent over email).

f) That I demanded parity with Ms Aruna Roy, Commodre Lokesh Batra, Mr Shekhar Singh etc who regularly use emails to get their work done at CIC through Mr Habibullah.

Sarbajit

--- In rti_india <at> yahoogroups.com, C K Jam <rtiwanted <at> ...> wrote:
>
> Dear Mr Sarbajit,
>
> It seems that you have either started a "free lubricant supply" business of your own or you have got into the good books of the CIC by floating a CIA (or Chinese) funded NGO !
>
> How come CIC gives you special treatment and also ignores its own legal cell in the process ?
>
> As per the following order of the CIC, your Complaint sent via email was taken cognizance of by the CIC:
>
> http://cic.gov.in/CIC-Orders/SS-18112009-01.pdf
>
> Sh. Sarbjit Roy filed a complaint via email before the Commission alleging that UIDAI, constituted by the notification of the Govt. of India , hence being a public authority has not implemented the RTI Act, 2005 and he requested the Commission to give appropriate directions to the UIDAI to implement the RTI Act in its true spirit. The Commission issued notices to the CPIO, Planning Commission and DG-UIDAI to appear before the Commission.
>
> This clearly contravenes CIC's own directions:
>
> http://cic.gov.in/CIC-Minutes/Minutes03032009.pdf
>
> Agenda 1:- A note from legal cell as to whether a complaint on an appeal received
> through email is legally valid or should it be registered.
> Commission directed that the citizens, filing their appeal/complaints on email be
> advised to file their appeal / complaints online. They may do so by visiting the link
> RTI Complaint & Appeal. This site is linked through CIC as well.
> The officer of the Registry, who is designated for Public Authorities, may advise the
> citizens regarding the same. Commission however clarified that the appeal/complaint
> received through email cannot be registered unless filed online or otherwise.
>
>
>
> Mr Sarbajit, as a initiator of the responsible RTI concept and in the interest of equitable awareness, please share with the group as to how are you suddenly getting such undue favors from the CIC ?
>
> Note to CIC WH:
> ===============
>
> Sir, the writ of our Moderator is restricted to this Yahoo group, of which you are a member. However, on the 2nd Floor of the AK Bhawan, you are the Boss !
>
> PS: Is it Sarbjeet or Sarbjit or Sarbajit ?
>
> Confused RTIwanted
>

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sarbajitr | 1 Jan 2010 08:13
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Re: Why is the moderator of this group getting special treatment at the CIC ?

 

Oops,

I clarify that I do not classify Commodore L.Batra in category of those who get work done in CIC.

I had included his name as an example of another person whose emails the CIC has taken cognisance of.

Sarbajit

--- In rti_india <at> yahoogroups.com, "sarbajitr" <sroy1947 <at> ...> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I am Sarbajit (one who has conquered everything)
>
> Funnily, this question was put to me too by the CIC when I sent my email complaint. I explained to them as follows:-
>
> a) That "complaints" form the heart of the CIC's 'Soo-moto" powers - see 18(2).
>
> b) That inquiry into "complaints" take precedence over disposal of appeals per the scheme of the RTI Act.
>
> c) That there is no provision in the RTI Act to restrict in any way the form, nature or content of a complaint to the Commission (unlike appeals).
>
> d) That I did not recognise the CIC's illegal Management Regulations which were drafted and approved by idiots (ie, legally deficient morons).
>
> e) That whereas the duly notified rules for APPEALS to the CIC provided for "verification" (which requires a signature), there is no such requirements for complaints - which can be unsigned (and hence do not require a digital / electronic signature to be sent over email).
>
> f) That I demanded parity with Ms Aruna Roy, Commodre Lokesh Batra, Mr Shekhar Singh etc who regularly use emails to get their work done at CIC through Mr Habibullah.
>
> Sarbajit
>

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C K | 1 Jan 2010 08:51
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Re: Why is the moderator of this group getting special treatment at the CIC ?

 

CIC WH,

I also demand parity !
None of my work gets done in the CIC through emails,
even though you are kind enough to answer them !

RTIwanted

--- In rti_india <at> yahoogroups.com, "sarbajitr" <sroy1947 <at> ...> wrote:

> > f) That I demanded parity with Ms Aruna Roy, Commodre Lokesh Batra, Mr Shekhar Singh etc who regularly use emails to get their work done at CIC through Mr Habibullah.
> >
> > Sarbajit

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Rakesh Ranjan | 1 Jan 2010 17:11
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HAPPY NEW YEAR [1 Attachment]

 
 

  

Wish You A Very Happy New Year

From: Rakesh Ranjan  

 
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External Collaborator 
Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative 
Convener & Coordinator: 
M P Suchana Adhikar Abhiyan (SANDHAN) 
Mob.: +91 98263 26708, 90396 59544 
Blog: http://sandhanindia.blogspot.com
Alternative e-mail: rakeshranjanrds@...

 
 
 
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Afzal Mohammed | 1 Jan 2010 18:21
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Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR

 

Wish you the same.

Regards - Mohammed Afzal.

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On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Rakesh Ranjan <rakeshranjan_rti <at> yahoo.co.in> wrote:
 
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Wish You A Very Happy New Year
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

From: Rakesh Ranjan

 

Dr. Rakesh Ranjan
External Collaborator
Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
Convener & Coordinator:
M P Suchana Adhikar Abhiyan (SANDHAN)
Mob.: +91 98263 26708, 90396 59544
Blog: http://sandhanindia.blogspot.com

Alternative e-mail: rakeshranjanrds <at> gmail.com

 

 

 

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kamramk8 | 1 Jan 2010 20:12
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In CIC online complaints system---whether signed copy also to be sent to cic

 

Dear Sh.Sarbajit Royji and all,

I filed complaint online in cic website on 10-12-09.Today , when I checked its current status, It is showing message "signed copy awaited".

Please suggest whether it is really necessary for compaints.

With regards
Manoj K.Kamra

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Manoj Pai | 2 Jan 2010 02:55
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Re: In CIC online complaints system---whether signed copy also to be sent to cic

 

After filing the complain / 2nd appeal online, did you download a pdf file from the site? You need to sign the print out of this file and send it to CIC.
 
Best wishes for 2010
 
Manoj Pai

--- On Sat, 1/2/10, kamramk8 <kamramk8 <at> yahoo.co.in> wrote:

From: kamramk8 <kamramk8 <at> yahoo.co.in>
Subject: [rti_india] In CIC online complaints system---whether signed copy also to be sent to cic
To: rti_india <at> yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, January 2, 2010, 12:42 AM

 
Dear Sh.Sarbajit Royji and all,

I filed complaint online in cic website on 10-12-09.Today , when I checked its current status, It is showing message "signed copy awaited".

Please suggest whether it is really necessary for compaints.

With regards
Manoj K.Kamra


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Maja Daruwala | 2 Jan 2010 03:34
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Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR

 

happy new year Rakeshji; 

2010/1/1 Rakesh Ranjan <rakeshranjan_rti <at> yahoo.co.in>
 
[Attachment(s) from Rakesh Ranjan included below]

 

 


 
 
 
 
Wish You A Very Happy New Year
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

From: Rakesh Ranjan

 

Dr. Rakesh Ranjan
External Collaborator
Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
Convener & Coordinator:
M P Suchana Adhikar Abhiyan (SANDHAN)
Mob.: +91 98263 26708, 90396 59544
Blog: http://sandhanindia.blogspot.com

Alternative e-mail: rakeshranjanrds <at> gmail.com

 

 

 

.......information is power.

P  Please takecare of the environment, print only if necessary





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