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Central Information Commission<\/div>\n
Dr. K. K. Singh vs Election Commission Of India … on 9 February, 2009<\/div>\n
                          CENTRAL INFORMATION COMMISSION\n                             Appeal No.CIC\/WB\/A\/2007\/01490 dated .2007\n                              Right to Information Act 2005 - Section 19\n\nAppellant         -          Dr. K. K. Singh\nRespondent            -      Election Commission of India (ECI)\n\n\nFacts<\/pre>\n
:\n<\/p>\n
By an application of 30.7.07 Dr. K. K. Singh, Boring Road, Patna, applied to
\nCPIO, Election Commission of India seeking the following information:\n<\/p>\n
         “Under section 6 of the RTI Act, 2005 I seek the following
\n         information from you:-<\/p>\n
         (i)   The list of officers indicating their parent department who
\n               were transferred during the Bihar Legislative Assembly
\n               elections, 2005.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
         (ii)    The details justification (or the proposal with reasons) in
\n                 each individual case that was sent to the ECI for getting
\n                 clearance prior to the issue of their transfer orders as
\n                 required by ECI guideline vide ECI letter no. 437\/6\/2005-
\n                 PLN III dated 3rd September 2005.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
         (iii)   The approval letter of the ECI sent to the State Government
\n                 of Bihar in reference to proposals of the State Government
\n                 as indicated in sub Para (ii) above, in ach individual case or
\n                 collectively, as required by the ECI guideline.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
         (iv)    Whether there was any violation of ECI guideline referred to
\n                 as in sub Para (i) above. What were the reasons for non
\n                 compliance by the State Government and what was the
\n                 response of the ECI in such cases.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
         (v)     Names of representative officers of the ECI who deliberated
\n                 on these transfers with their present place of posting and
\n                 postal addresses.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
     This question arose from an allegation made in the application by appellant,
\na senior police official of the State, accusing the State Government of Bihar that
\n“they have thus sabotaged democratic norms clandestinely”.\n<\/p>\n
                                                1<\/span><\/p>\n
      To this he received a response on 31.8.07 from Shri S. R. Kar, CPIO & US,
\nECI as follows:\n<\/p>\n
      “Item No. (i)
\n      the list of transfer\/ posting during the Bihar Legislative Assembly
\n      Election, 2005 is not available in the Commission. The same may
\n      be obtained from the CEO, Bihar\/ the Chief Secretary, Bihar.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
      Item No. (ii)
\n      As regards detailed justification for transfer. It is informed that in
\n      the conduct of elections, the Commision constantly assesses the
\n      situation regarding election preparedness and appropriate action is
\n      taken in the interest of free and fair elections, which may include
\n      shifting of officials connected with the conduct of elections
\n      wherever necessary. It may also be noted that transfer is an
\n      incidence of service and it is not necessary to give opportunity of
\n      hearing before transferring an official.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
      Item No. (iii)
\n      The papers relating to approval of the Commission for transfer\/
\n      posting of officers are available in the Commission. The list
\n      showing the details is enclosed herewith. The aforesaid papers run
\n      to 77 pages. You may obtain the same on payment basis by
\n      depositing copying charges @ Rs. 2\/- @ Rs\/ 2\/- per page as
\n      prescribed under Rule 4 of the Right to information (Regulation of
\n      Fee & Cost) Rules, 2005. the above said amount may be
\n      deposited by way of cash against proper receipt or by way of Bank
\n      draft\/ Banker’s cheque\/ Indian Postal Order in favour of Under
\n      Secretary or Accounts Officer, Election Commission of India. In the
\n      case of fee paid by way of Indian Postal Order, it should be payable
\n      at “Nirvachan Sadan, New Delhi”.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
      Item No. (iv)
\n      It is not clear that which guideline under sub Para (i) has been
\n      referred to under this item.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
      Item No. (v)
\n      There was no representative officer specifically appointed for
\n      deliberating on transfer proposals.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
     Dr. K. K. Singh then moved his first appeal on 12.9.07 before the Appellate
\nAuthority, Election Commission of India with the following three specific pleas:\n<\/p>\n
                                         2<\/span><\/p>\n
       1. “My query was simply addressed to this1 guideline of the ECI. I had
\n         requested for the justification put up by the Government of Bihar
\n         regarding these transfers during the election process. I am afraid
\n         that he PIO in his response in Para 2 has not restrained himself to
\n         this point but has been beating around the bush.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
      2. It is again contradictory to the response in Para 1 and 2 of the PIO.
\n         If the list of officers transferred during the said period and the
\n         justification of the state Government are not available how can the
\n         approval of transfers be on record.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
      3. That again was my specific query in Para 4 which have not been
\n         addressed to. Thus the response of the PIO is incomplete,
\n         incoherent and unfocussed.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
          Upon this Shri K. F. Wilfred, Secretary UPSC in his response of 19.10.07
\nhas held as follows:\n<\/p>\n
           “Your grievance in the present appeal is about alleged contradiction
\n           in the reply given by the PIO and about alleged non-furnishing
\n           information against item (ii) of your application. As regards the
\n           alleged contradiction, it is stated that during the election period,
\n           there may have been transfer of officials who are not connected
\n           with the conduct of elections in any manner. In such cases, the
\n           Commission would not be having the information\/ list of the officials
\n           concerned. That was the reason why PIO’s reply stated that the list
\n           is not available in the Commission.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
           As regards the officers connected with the conduct of election, you
\n           have already been informed about the position and copies of the
\n           comments related to approval of the Commission for transfer\/
\n           posting of officers have also been furnished to you. Regarding the
\n           justification for each transfer\/ posting, copies of communications
\n           regards the proposal for transfer\/ postings and approval of the
\n           Commission have already been furnished to you. The fact that the
\n           transfer\/ postings were approved by the Commission would show
\n           that the Commission was satisfied about the justification. It has
\n           also been intimated to you that no case of violation of the
\n           instructions in the letter dated 3.9.2005 was brought to the notice of
\n           the Commission.’<\/p>\n
Dr. K. K. Singh’s prayer before us in his second appeal is as below:\n<\/p>\n
           “Provision of information as sought vide application Form A
\n           dated 30.7.2007 and as in Form G (First appeal) dated
\n1<\/span>
\n    A letter from ECI to State Govt. of Bihar of 3rd September 2005<\/p>\n
                                                      3<\/span>
\n       12.9.2007. All relevant documents are enclosed for ready
\n      reference.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
However, the grounds on which this prayer has been made are as follows:\n<\/p>\n
      (a)    “Aggrieved by the decision of the appellate authority.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
             Silence on the non-compliance of Election Commission of
\n             India Letter No. 437\/6\/2005-PLN III dated 3.9.2005.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
      (b)    “For previews and confirmation prospectively, all actions
\n             undertaken and administrative orders issued by the ECI,
\n             including those related to transfers by the respective state
\n             govt. and the concurrence of the ECI thereto, have to be part
\n             of records.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
      (c)    “The ECI has functioned in this case as a whimsical
\n             bureaucratic machinery rather than a democratic
\n             Constitutional entity.     There has been complete non
\n             compliance of the ECI guideline as laid down in ECI letter
\n             No. 437\/6\/2005-PLN III dated 3.9.05 by both the State Govt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
             of Bihar and the ECI itself. The response of the PIO and the
\n             Appellate Authority of ECI has completely downplayed this
\n             issue for reasons best known to them.’<\/p>\n
The appeal was heard on 9.2.09. The following are present:\n<\/p>\n
      Respondents
\n           Shri K. F. Wilfred, Secretary, ECI
\n           Shri Varinder K., Under Secretary<\/p>\n
     Contacted on the telephone appellant Dr. K. K. Singh submitted that he
\nwished for the Commission to take a decision on the merits of his case. He has
\nopted not to be present. Shri Wilfred, Secretary ECI submitted that ECI has taken
\nnote of the advice of Central Information Commission in CIC\/WB\/A\/2007\/00642
\ndated 14.7.2007 in which we have u\/s 25(5) advised the ECI as follows:\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
             “In this case, it is quite clear that the information sought by
\n      the appellant is
\n      not held by the public authority to which applied i.e. the Election
\n      Commission of India. It, therefore, cannot be supplied under the
\n      RTI Act. However, the question arises in light of Dr. K. K. Singh’s
\n      plea before us whether such information which could affect the
\n      career of an officer in their
\n      premier\/services should be held by a public authority, particularly
\n      when it is exercising administrative jurisdiction over such officers.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
                                        4<\/span><\/p>\n
       Under the authority vested in us u\/s 25(5) of the RTI Act, we,
\n      therefore, recommend that the Election Commission of India
\n      consider all aspects of actually holding such information in cases
\n      where they recommend or agree to transfers and postings of
\n      officers given the responsibility of SPs & DCs in Districts where
\n      Elections are being conducted to allow for access to such officers,
\n      subject to the exemptions provided in sec. 8(1). This would in all
\n      fairness, ensure that such action does not thereafter become an
\n      unfair ground for suspicion or doubt on the character of a civil
\n      servant in the service of the public, thus tarnishing an image
\n      otherwise above reproach.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
       Shri Wilfred submitted that vide their circular of 13.9.08, the Principal
\nSecretary Shri Shangara Ram has directed the staff of UPSC as follows:\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
      “2.    The above decision of the Commission is brought to the
\n             notice of all the concerned in the Commission for strict
\n             compliance.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
      3.     It may also be noted that, as per the present policy of the
\n             Commission vide letter No. 437\/6\/2006\/PLN-II dated 6th
\n             November, 2006 addressed to all the Chief Secretaries and
\n             Chief Electoral Officers of all States and UTs, a detailed
\n             review of the posting of officers is done by the CEO prior to
\n             the General Elections to Lok Sabha\/ State Legislative
\n             Assemblies, to ensure that no officer connected with
\n             elections, directly or indirectly, should be allowed to continue
\n             in the present district of posting:\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
             (a)    If she\/ he is posted in her\/ his home district.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
             (b)    If she\/ he has completed three years in that district
\n                    during last four years.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
      3.1    While implementing this policy instruction certain transfers\/
\n             postings would result. A record of such transfer shall be
\n             maintained noting the policy instruction under which such
\n             transfers have been done.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n
                              DECISION NOTICE<\/p>\n
     Having heard the arguments and examined the records, we find that the
\nappeal of Dr. K. K. Singh to this Commission is in the nature of a complaint that
\nthe ECI has abdicated its responsibility under Representation of People’s Act,<\/p>\n
                                        5<\/span>
\n 1951 and does not seek any information nor complains that any information has
\nbeen refused. As pointed out by respondents Shri Wilfred Secretary, ECI, the
\nECI has already taken note of the orders of this Commission in a separate
\nappeal with regard to the same subject by the same appellant is in the process of
\ncompliance.    It is open to appellant Dr. K. K. Singh to make any further
\nsuggestions directly to Election Commission of India with regard to this. In fact
\nDr KK Singh deserves to be commended for bringing to the notice of ECI the
\nneed that Apex Board cleave rigidly to the requirements of the Representation of
\nPeople’s Act, 1951, as he perceives it By this means the citizens of India might
\nensure that this supreme authority for administering a key element of the nation’s
\npride cleave to the ‘straight and narrow’ However, there being no further grounds
\nfor providing information under the Right to Information Act, 2005, this appeal is,
\nwith the above observations, now dismissed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
      Announced in the hearing. Notice of this decision be given free of cost to
\nthe parties.\n<\/p>\n
(Wajahat Habibullah)
\nChief Information Commissioner
\n9.2.2009<\/p>\n
Authenticated true copy. Additional copies of orders shall be supplied against
\napplication and payment of the charges, prescribed under the Act, to the CPIO
\nof this Commission.\n<\/p>\n
(Pankaj Shreyaskar)
\nJoint Registrar
\n9.2.2009<\/p>\n
                                        6<\/span>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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