{"id":247496,"date":"2009-04-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/mr-s-k-bhattacharjee-vs-south-eastern-railway-on-28-april-2009"},"modified":"2015-09-19T20:37:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T15:07:25","slug":"mr-s-k-bhattacharjee-vs-south-eastern-railway-on-28-april-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/mr-s-k-bhattacharjee-vs-south-eastern-railway-on-28-april-2009","title":{"rendered":"Mr. S.K. Bhattacharjee vs South Eastern Railway on 28 April, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Central Information Commission<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Mr. S.K. Bhattacharjee vs South Eastern Railway on 28 April, 2009<\/div>\n<pre id=\"pre_1\">                       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\/OK\/C\/2008\/00364\/SG\/2978\n                                                                 Complaint No. CIC\/OK\/C\/2008\/00364\n\nComplainant                                :        Mr. S.K. Bhattacharjee\n                                                    House # 251\n                                                    India Athena School Road\n                                                    Kharagpur, West Bengal\n                                                    721305\n\nRespondent                                  :       Public information Officer\n                                                    South Eastern Railway\n                                                    Kharagpur\n                                                    West Bengal\nFacts arising from the Complaint:\n        Mr. S.K Bhattacharjee had filed a RTI application with the PIO, South Eastern Railways,\nKharagpur on 23\/10\/2007 asking for certain information. Since no reply was received within the\nmandated time of 30 days, he had filed a complaint under Section 18 to the Commission. The\nCommission issued a notice to the PIO on 05\/03\/2009 asking him to supply the information and\nsought an explanation for not furnishing the information within the mandated time.\n        The Commission has neither received a copy of the information sent to the complainant,\nnor has it received any explanation from the PIO for not supplying the information to the\ncomplainant. Therefore, the only presumption that can be derived is that the PIO has deliberately\nand without any reasonable cause refused to give information as per the provisions of the <a href=\"\/doc\/671631\/\" id=\"a_1\">RTI\nAct<\/a>. His failure to respond to the Commission's notice shows that he has no reasons for the\nrefusal of information.\n\nDecision:\nThe Complaint is allowed.\n       The PIO will send the complete information to the complainant before May 20, 2009.\nThe PIO's action clearly amounts to denial of information without any reasons. The PIO is\ntherefore, asked to submit a written explanation showing cause as to why penalty should not be\nimposed and disciplinary action be recommended against him under <a href=\"\/doc\/1369783\/\" id=\"a_1\">Section 20<\/a> (1) &amp; (2) of the\n<a href=\"\/doc\/671631\/\" id=\"a_2\">RTI Act<\/a> before May 25, 2009.\n       If the information has already been supplied to the complainant, furnish a copy of the\nsame to the Commission with your written submission.\n\nNotice of this decision be given free of cost to the parties.\n.\n<\/pre>\n<p id=\"p_1\">                                                                                          Shailesh Gandhi<br \/>\n                                                                                Information Commissioner<br \/>\n                                                                                            April 28, 2009.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1\">For any further communication with the Commission please mention the decision No. given at the top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Central Information Commission Mr. S.K. Bhattacharjee vs South Eastern Railway on 28 April, 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\/OK\/C\/2008\/00364\/SG\/2978 Complaint No. CIC\/OK\/C\/2008\/00364 Complainant : Mr. S.K. Bhattacharjee House # 251 India Athena School Road [&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-247496","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>Mr. S.K. 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