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Decision No. 4163/IC(A)/2009
F. No. CIC/MA/A/2009/00452
Dated, the 13th July, 2009
Name of the Appellant : Shri N.K. Ashokan
Name of the Public Authority : Petroleum & Explosives Safety Orgn.
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Facts
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1. The appeal was scheduled for hearing on 10/07/2009, but the appellant
did not avail of this opportunity. The appeal is therefore examined on merit.
2. The appellant has asked for certain information in the form of various
queries which relate to Explosive Act and Rules.
3. The CPIO has replied and stated that the requested information is already
in the public domain and can be accessed from the respondent’s website, of
which address is indicated.
4. The appellant has however insisted for providing a point-wise response,
as solicited by the appellant.
Decision:
5. Under section 2 (f) of the Act an information seeker is expected to clearly
specify the required information, which should be available in any material form.
If you don’t ask, you don’t get – Mahatma Gandhi
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If necessary, he may seek inspection of records in order to identify the required
information. He is however not expected to elicit views and opinion of the officials
of the respondents through various forms of queries, as attempted in the instant
case. The appellant is accordingly advised and the appeal is thus disposed of.
Sd/-
(Prof. M.M. Ansari)
Central Information Commissioner
Authenticated true copy:
(M.C. Sharma)
Assistant Registrar
Name and address of parties: 2
1. Shri N.K. Ashokan, Lakshmi Bhavan, Mudiyourkonam PO:, Pandalam,
Kerala-689516.
2. Shri K. Thiagarajan, Controller of Explosives & PIO, Petroleum &
Explosives Safety Organisation, 140, Rukmani Lakshmipathi Salai,
Egmore, Chennai-600008.
All men by nature desire to know – Aristotle
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