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Decision No. CIC /SG/C/2010/000499/7977
Complaint No. CIC /SG/C/2010/000499
COMPLAINT REMANDED TO : First Appellate Authority
Govt. of NCT of Delhi
Old Terminal Tax Building,
Kapashera, New Delhi – 110037.
Complainant : Mr. Kripal Kumar
C – 208, A/6, (Flat No. 206),
Savitri Nagar, New Delhi.
Public Information Officer : Public Information Officer
Govt. of NCT of Delhi
O/o The Sub Registrar – IX
Old Terminal Tax Building,
Kapashera, New Delhi – 110037.
Decision:
The complainant had filed an application with the PIO on 18-01-2010 asking for certain
information. He received a reply from the PIO, which he found unsatisfactory. The
complainant has therefore filed a complaint with the Commission under Section 18 of the RTI
Act, 2005. The complainant has not used the alternate and efficacious remedy of First Appeal
available under Section 19 (1) of the RTI Act. Consequently, the First Appellate Authority has
not had the chance to review the PIO’s decision as envisaged under the RTI Act.
Therefore, the matter is remanded to the First Appellate Authority with a direction to
decide the matter in accordance with the provisions of the RTI Act, after giving all concerned
parties an opportunity to be heard.
The Complaint is disposed off.
Notice of this decision be given free of cost to the parties.
Shailesh Gandhi
Information Commissioner
02-06-2010
Encl: Copy of RTI Application dated 18-01-2010.
Copy of PIO’s reply dated 18-02-2010..
(For any further correspondence in this matter, please quote the file no. mentioned above) (BK)