{"id":118193,"date":"2009-12-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/shri-r-baskaran-vs-southern-railway-on-11-december-2009-2"},"modified":"2018-03-20T15:24:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T09:54:00","slug":"shri-r-baskaran-vs-southern-railway-on-11-december-2009-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/shri-r-baskaran-vs-southern-railway-on-11-december-2009-2","title":{"rendered":"Shri. R. Baskaran vs Southern Railway on 11 December, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Central Information Commission<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Shri. R. Baskaran vs Southern Railway on 11 December, 2009<\/div>\n<pre>             Central Information Commission\n                            2nd Floor, August Kranti Bhawan,\n                        Bhikaji Cama Place, New Delhi - 110 066\n                                Website: www.cic.gov.in\n\n           (Adjunct to Decision No.4350\/IC(A)\/2009 dated 20th August 2009)\n\n                                                            Decision No.4798\/IC(A)\/2009\n                                                            F. No.CIC\/OK\/C\/2009\/000045\n                                                          Dated, the 11th December, 2009\n\nName of the Appellant:                  Shri. R. Baskaran\n\nName of the Public Authority:           Southern Railway\n                                                      i\n                                          Decision:\n\n1.    In response to the show-cause notice vide Decision No.4350\/IC(A)\/2009\ndated 20th August 2009, both the parties were heard on 11\/12\/2009.\n\n2.     The appellant expressed satisfaction in respect of the action taken and in\nproviding information asked for by him, which relate to redressal of grievances of\nthe appellant, an employee of the respondent. Since the matter relates to<\/pre>\n<p>redressal of grievances and that the respondent have taken appropriate action in<br \/>\nthis regard, the penalty proceedings is, therefore, dropped and the case is<br \/>\nclosed.\n<\/p>\n<p>                                                                           Sd\/-\n<\/p>\n<p>                                                                    (Prof. M.M. Ansari)<br \/>\n                                                      Central Information Commissioner ii<\/p>\n<p>Authenticated true copy:\n<\/p>\n<p>(M.C. Sharma)<br \/>\nDeputy Registrar<\/p>\n<p>                   i<br \/>\n                       &#8220;If you don&#8217;t ask, you don&#8217;t get.&#8221; &#8211; Mahatma Gandhi<br \/>\n                         ii<br \/>\n                            &#8220;All men by nature desire to know.&#8221; &#8211; Aristotle<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">                                               1<\/span><br \/>\n Name &amp; address of Parties:\n<\/p>\n<p>1.   Shri. R. Baskaran, CSTE\/Proj., South Western      Railway, Hubli, West<br \/>\n     Bengal.\n<\/p>\n<p>2.   The CPIO, Southern Railway, Headquarters Office, Personnel Branch,<br \/>\n     Chennai &#8211; 600 003.\n<\/p>\n<p>3.   The Appellate Authority, Southern      Railway,   Headquarters   Office,<br \/>\n     Personnel Branch, Chennai &#8211; 600 003.\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">                                   2<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Central Information Commission Shri. R. Baskaran vs Southern Railway on 11 December, 2009 Central Information Commission 2nd Floor, August Kranti Bhawan, Bhikaji Cama Place, New Delhi &#8211; 110 066 Website: www.cic.gov.in (Adjunct to Decision No.4350\/IC(A)\/2009 dated 20th August 2009) Decision No.4798\/IC(A)\/2009 F. No.CIC\/OK\/C\/2009\/000045 Dated, the 11th December, 2009 Name of the Appellant: Shri. R. Baskaran [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-central-information-commission","category-judgements"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Shri. R. 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