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Date: 07/07/2009
Decision No. CIC/SG/C/2009/000613/4025
Complaint No. CIC/SG/C/2009/000613
COMPLAINT REMANDED TO : First Appellate Authority
University of Allahabad
Allahabad-211001, UP.
Complainant : Mr. S. N. Chatterji
56/16-C, Chaurch Lane,
Allahabad, UP.
Public Information Officer : Mr. R. L. Vishwakarma
CPIO (Admin.)
University of Allahabad
Central Public Information Office
Senate Hall (North), 1st Floor,
Allahabad-211001, UP.
Decision:
The complainant had filed an application with the PIO on 07/04/2008 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.
Notice of this decision be given free of cost to the parties.
Shailesh Gandhi
Information Commissioner
07/07/2009
Encl: Copy of RTI Application dated 07/04/2008
Copy of PIO’s reply dated 24/03/2009
(For any further correspondence in this matter, please quote the file no. mentioned above)