{"id":247172,"date":"2009-03-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-29T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/sh-virendra-kumar-vs-northern-railways-on-30-march-2009"},"modified":"2018-08-14T01:52:28","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T20:22:28","slug":"sh-virendra-kumar-vs-northern-railways-on-30-march-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/sh-virendra-kumar-vs-northern-railways-on-30-march-2009","title":{"rendered":"Sh. Virendra Kumar vs Northern Railways on 30 March, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Central Information Commission<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Sh. Virendra Kumar vs Northern Railways on 30 March, 2009<\/div>\n<pre>                     CENTRAL INFORMATION COMMISSION\n                            Room No. 415, 4th Floor,\n                          Block IV, Old JNU Campus,\n                              New Delhi - 110067.\n                             Tel: + 91 11 26161796\n\n                                                       Decision No. CIC \/SG\/C\/2009\/000253\/2533\n                                                          Complaint No. CIC\/SG\/C\/2009\/000253\n\nCOMPLAINT REMANDED TO :                        Divisional Material Manager (FAA),\n                                               Northern Railway,\n                                               Ambala Cantt.\n\nComplainant                           :        Sh. Virendra Kumar,\n                                               Retired Principal, Bathinda House,\n                                               Navneet Sadan,\n                                               Sabuthur Road,\n                                               Solan - 173211\n                                               Himachal Pradesh\n\nPublic Information Officer            :        The Public Information Officer\n                                               Station Master,\n                                               Northern Railways,\n                                               The Mall, Solan - 173212\n                                               Himachal Pradesh\n\nDecision:\n       The complainant had filed an application with the PIO on 19\/01\/2009 asking for certain\ninformation. He received a reply from the PIO, he found unsatisfactory. The complainant has\ntherefore filed a complaint with the Commission under Section 18 of the RTI Act. The\ncomplainant has not used the alternate and efficacious remedy of the First Appeal available\nunder Section 19 (1) of the RTI Act. Consequently, the First Appellate Authority has not had the\nchance to review the PIO's decision as envisaged under the RTI Act.\n       Therefore the matter is remanded to the First Appellate Authority with a direction to\ndecide the matter in accordance with the provisions of the RTI Act, 2005, after giving both sides\nan opportunity of a hearing.\n\nThe Complaint is disposed.\n\nNotice of this decision be given free of cost to the parties.\n\n\n                                                                               Shailesh Gandhi\n                                                                     Information Commissioner\n                                                                                March 30, 2009\nEncl:\n1.<\/pre>\n<p>    Copy of the complaint\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Central Information Commission Sh. Virendra Kumar vs Northern Railways on 30 March, 2009 CENTRAL INFORMATION COMMISSION Room No. 415, 4th Floor, Block IV, Old JNU Campus, New Delhi &#8211; 110067. Tel: + 91 11 26161796 Decision No. CIC \/SG\/C\/2009\/000253\/2533 Complaint No. CIC\/SG\/C\/2009\/000253 COMPLAINT REMANDED TO : Divisional Material Manager (FAA), Northern Railway, Ambala Cantt. Complainant [&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-247172","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>Sh. 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