{"id":221105,"date":"2008-08-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/shri-subhash-chandra-vs-bharat-sanchar-nigam-ltd-on-13-august-2008"},"modified":"2018-08-23T15:37:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T10:07:07","slug":"shri-subhash-chandra-vs-bharat-sanchar-nigam-ltd-on-13-august-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/shri-subhash-chandra-vs-bharat-sanchar-nigam-ltd-on-13-august-2008","title":{"rendered":"Shri Subhash Chandra vs Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. on 13 August, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Central Information Commission<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Shri Subhash Chandra vs Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. on 13 August, 2008<\/div>\n<pre>                     Central Information Commission\n                             2nd Floor, August Kranti Bhawan,\n                          Bhikaji Cama Place, New Delhi-110066\n                                  Website: www.cic.gov.in\n\n                                                             Decision No. 3064\/IC(A)\/2008\n\n                                                               F. No. CIC\/MA\/C\/2008\/00325\n\n                                                              Dated, the 13th August, 2008\n\nName of the Appellant                 :       Shri Subhash Chandra\n\nName of the Public Authority          :       Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.\n\n\n\n                                          DECISION\n\n\n1.     The complainant did not avail of the opportunity of personal hearing on\n13\/08\/2008. The complaint is, therefore, examined on merit.\n\n\n2.     The complainant has alleged that information asked for vide his application\ndated 28.02.2008, have not been furnished to him by the CPIO of the respondent.<\/pre>\n<p>3.     The CPIO is directed to furnish the information within 15 working days from<br \/>\nthe date of issue of this decision, failing which penalty proceedings u\/s 20 (1) of the<br \/>\nAct would be initiated.\n<\/p>\n<p>4.     The complainant is advised to contact the concerned CPIO along with a copy<br \/>\nof his RTI application for ready reference. He should ensure that the required<br \/>\ninformation is clearly specified as per the provision of section 2(f) of the Act, which<br \/>\nrequires that information should be available in any material form.\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">1<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                              If you don&#8217;t ask, you don&#8217;t get &#8211; Mahatma Gandhi<br \/>\n<span class=\"hidden_text\">                                               1<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p> 5.     The complainant is thus disposed of.\n<\/p>\n<p>                                                                                  Sd\/-\n<\/p>\n<p>                                                                          (Prof. M.M. Ansari)<br \/>\n                                                           Central Information Commissioner<\/p>\n<p>Authenticated true copy:\n<\/p>\n<p>(M.C. Sharma)<br \/>\nAssistant Registrar<\/p>\n<p>Name and address of parties:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>     1. Shri Subhash Chandra, C\/o Human Resources &amp; Environment Development<br \/>\n        Society, Kalyani (Meena Bazar), Maharajpur, Sahebganj-816109.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>     2. The Central Public Information Officer, BSNL, O\/o GMTD, Dumka,<br \/>\n        Jharkhand.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">2<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>                           All men by nature desire to know &#8211; Aristotle<br \/>\n<span class=\"hidden_text\">                                                2<\/span>\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Central Information Commission Shri Subhash Chandra vs Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. on 13 August, 2008 Central Information Commission 2nd Floor, August Kranti Bhawan, Bhikaji Cama Place, New Delhi-110066 Website: www.cic.gov.in Decision No. 3064\/IC(A)\/2008 F. No. CIC\/MA\/C\/2008\/00325 Dated, the 13th August, 2008 Name of the Appellant : Shri Subhash Chandra Name of the Public Authority : [&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-221105","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 v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Shri Subhash Chandra vs Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. on 13 August, 2008 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/shri-subhash-chandra-vs-bharat-sanchar-nigam-ltd-on-13-august-2008\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shri Subhash Chandra vs Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. on 13 August, 2008 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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