Sh. B. R. Manhas vs All India Council For Technical … on 30 March, 2009

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                                                       Decision No. CIC /SG/C/2009/000203/2522
                                                          Complaint No. CIC/SG/C/2009/000203

COMPLAINT REMANDED TO :                        First Appellate Authority
                                               All India Council for Technical Education
                                               7th Floor, Chander Lok Building,
                                               Janpath, New Delhi - 110001

Complainant                           :        Sh. B. R. Manhas,
                                               C/o Bhagwan Singh Building,
                                               F-301, Lado Sarai,
                                               New Delhi -110030

Public Information Officer            :        The Public Information Officer
                                               All India Council for Technical Education
                                               7th Floor, Chander Lok Building,
                                               Janpath, New Delhi - 110001
Decision:
       The complainant had filed an application with the PIO on 02/02/2009 asking for certain
information. He received a reply from the PIO, he found unsatisfactory. The complainant has
therefore filed a complaint with the Commission under Section 18 of the RTI Act. The
complainant has not used the alternate and efficacious remedy of the 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, 2005, after giving both sides
an opportunity of a hearing.

The Complaint is disposed.

Notice of this decision be given free of cost to the parties.


                                                                               Shailesh Gandhi
                                                                     Information Commissioner
                                                                                March 30, 2009
Encl:
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Copy of the complaint