{"id":252328,"date":"2011-08-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/mr-prabhakar-narkar-vs-ministry-of-consumer-aff-food-on-11-august-2011"},"modified":"2018-12-03T20:27:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T14:57:39","slug":"mr-prabhakar-narkar-vs-ministry-of-consumer-aff-food-on-11-august-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/mr-prabhakar-narkar-vs-ministry-of-consumer-aff-food-on-11-august-2011","title":{"rendered":"Mr.Prabhakar Narkar vs Ministry Of Consumer Aff., Food, … on 11 August, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"
Central Information Commission<\/div>\n
Mr.Prabhakar Narkar vs Ministry Of Consumer Aff., Food, … on 11 August, 2011<\/div>\n
                                                               Appeal\u00a0No.CIC\/SS\/A\/2011\/000691\n\n\n\n\n                  CENTRAL INFORMATION COMMISSION\n                            \"B\"- Wing, 2nd Floor,\n                  August Kranti Bhavan, Bhikaji Cama Place,\n                             New Delhi - 110066\n\n\n                                             Appeal No.CIC\/SS\/A\/2011\/000691\n\nPARTIES TO THE CASE:\n\nAppellant          :     Shri Prabhakar Narkar\n\n\nRespondent         :     Forward Markets Commission, Ministry of Consumer\n\n                         Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Department of\n\n                         Consumer Affairs, Mumbai\n\n\nDate of Hearing    :     27\/06\/2011\n\n\nBACKGROUND<\/pre>\n
 OF THE CASE:\n<\/p>\n
\n
  1. The present matter was scheduled for hearing before the Commission on<\/p>\n
     27\/06\/2011 at 1515 hours. The Appellant, Shri Prabhakar Narkar was neither<\/p>\n
     present during the hearing nor did anyone appear on his behalf. The<\/p>\n
     Respondent was represented through Shri Suresh R. Nair, Assistant Director<\/p>\n
     (LAN) who had appeared for the CPIO and the FAA of the Respondent.<\/p>\n
  2. The Appellant vide his RTI Application dated 16\/09\/2010 had sought the<\/p>\n
     following information under 13 Questions regarding certain details about<\/p>\n
     commodity exchanges in India for the period 2009-10:<\/p>\n
                                       1<\/span>\n<\/p>\n
                                                 Appeal\u00a0No.CIC\/SS\/A\/2011\/000691<\/p>\n
“i. Number of registered investors as on August 31, 2010;
\nii. How many of the above are individual investors?
\niii. How many of the registered investors are from Metro cities,
\nhow many are from Tier-II cities and how many are from Tier-
\nIII towns?\n<\/p>\n
iv. How many investors traded during the financial year 2009-
\n10?\n<\/p>\n
v. What is the contribution of brokerage firms’ own trading to
\nthe total trading in Gold, Crude and other commodities in the
\nfinancial year 2009-10?\n<\/p>\n
vi. What is the contribution of individual investors to the total
\ntrading in Gold, Crude and other commodities in the financial
\nyear 2009-10?\n<\/p>\n
vii. What portion of trading came from terminals \/ investors
\nlocated in Metro cities in financial year 2009-10?
\nviii. What portion of trading came from terminals \/ investors
\nlocated in Tier-II cities in financial year 2009-10?
\nix. What portion of trading came from terminals \/ investors
\nlocated in Tier-III cities in financial year 2009-10?
\nx. What is contribution of top 10 brokers to the total trading
\nactivity of each exchange during the financial year 2009-10?
\nxi. What is contribution of top 10 brokerage proprietary
\ntrading to the total trading activity of each exchange during the
\nfinancial year 2009-10?\n<\/p>\n
xii. How many entities contributed to 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%
\nand 90% of the total trading turnover of each exchange in
\nGold, Crude and other commodities in the financial year 2009-
\n10?\n<\/p>\n
xiii. How many of the above entities are proprietary trading
\naccounts of brokerage.”\n<\/p>\n
\n
                      2<\/span>\n<\/p>\n
                                                                 Appeal\u00a0No.CIC\/SS\/A\/2011\/000691<\/p>\n
3. The CPIO of the Respondent, Ms. Usha Suresh vide her Order dated<\/p>\n
   07\/12\/2010 had held that the requested information was not available with<\/p>\n
   the Respondent Commission and the same was sought from the Exchanges.<\/p>\n
   The CPIO in her Order had enclosed the reply submitted to it by the Multi<\/p>\n
   Commodity Exchange of India Limited (MCX).\n<\/p>\n
\n
4. As per the CPIO’s Order, the MCX had relied on various decisions of this<\/p>\n
   Commission to press that it is not a Public Authority under the RTI Act<\/a> and<\/p>\n
   that in any case, the information sought by the Appellant was exempted<\/p>\n
   from disclosure under Section 8<\/a> (1) (d), (e) & (j) of the RTI Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n
5. The Order of the CPIO mentioned the MCX stating that the information<\/p>\n
   sought by the Appellant is not ‘Information’ under the RTI Act<\/a> being in the<\/p>\n
   nature of queries \/ opinions \/ views and also that the Respondent<\/p>\n
   Commission is not obliged to collect such information as is being sought<\/p>\n
   under the RTI Application. Thus, in consideration of the opinion tendered by<\/p>\n
   the MCX, the CPIO had refused the information under Section 8<\/a> (1) (d) &<\/p>\n
   (j) of the RTI Act<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n
\n
6. The Appellant preferred first appeal under the RTI Act<\/a> to the FAA of the<\/p>\n
   Respondent Commission. The Appellant had contended that the information<\/p>\n
   sought by him is market level information and not of any single Trader \/<\/p>\n
                                      3<\/span>
\n                                                                Appeal\u00a0No.CIC\/SS\/A\/2011\/000691<\/p>\n
  Investor and that Exchanges should have published such information as part<\/p>\n
  of market, quality information on their own. Appellant had submitted further<\/p>\n
  that the Respondent Commission should ensure that information on market<\/p>\n
  quality is made available to the investing public to increase transparency in<\/p>\n
  the commodities markets and that the information regarding quantum of<\/p>\n
  trading activity done on proprietary account etc. are crucial for investors to<\/p>\n
  decide whether to enter a market. The Appellant further submitted before the<\/p>\n
  FAA that number of investors participating in commodities markets etc<\/p>\n
  cannot be treated as commercially sensitive information.<\/p>\n
7. Shri D.S. Kolamkar, FAA & Member, Forward Markets Commission, vide<\/p>\n
  his Order dated 17\/01\/2011 had held that it would not be right for the<\/p>\n
  Respondent Commission to compel any entity to part with information as<\/p>\n
  sought in the present case, merely because the said entity is being regulated<\/p>\n
  by the Respondent Commission under the Forward Contracts (Regulation)<\/p>\n
  Act<\/a>, 1952 (“FCRA, 1952”). The FAA stated that the replies received from<\/p>\n
  the concerned divisions of the Respondent indicated that the information<\/p>\n
  sought by the Appellant was not available in Respondent’s office and that<\/p>\n
  when one of the Divisions sought to collect the information from the<\/p>\n
  Exchange under the said Division, then the said Commodity Exchange (i.e.<\/p>\n
  the MCX) pointed out that it was not Public Authority in light of the<\/p>\n
                                     4<\/span>
\n                                                                    Appeal\u00a0No.CIC\/SS\/A\/2011\/000691<\/p>\n
     decision of this Commission in case of ‘Indubala Agarwal vs. National<\/p>\n
     Commodity          &        Derivatives       Exchange         Ltd’                (File<\/p>\n
     No.CIC\/LS\/C\/2009\/000575<\/a>). With such observations, the FAA had<\/p>\n
     dismissed the first appeal of the Appellant herein.<\/p>\n
  8. The Appellant, aggrieved henceforth, has preferred second appeal under the<\/p>\n
     RTI Act<\/a> before this Commission.\n<\/p>\n
\nDECISION NOTICE:\n<\/p>\n
\n
  9. The Commission has carefully perused the material placed on record, the<\/p>\n
     decisions relied upon by the parties and has considered the submissions<\/p>\n
     made by the Respondent who was present during the scheduled hearing.<\/p>\n
  10. It appears to this Commission that while passing its Order, the FAA of the<\/p>\n
     Respondent has not dealt specifically with each of the 13 Questions raised<\/p>\n
     by the Appellant in his RTI Application (supra). For instance, the Order of<\/p>\n
     the FAA does not provide a specific reply to number of registered Investors,<\/p>\n
     number of individual investors, their location specific details, trading details<\/p>\n
     of investors for financial year 2009-10, respective contribution of brokerage<\/p>\n
     firms or top 10 brokers or top 10 brokerage proprietary or individual<\/p>\n
     investors to the total trading in Gold, Crude and other commodities in<\/p>\n
     financial year 2009-10, location specific contributions to the total trading in<\/p>\n
                                         5<\/span>
\n                                                                   Appeal\u00a0No.CIC\/SS\/A\/2011\/000691<\/p>\n
      Gold, Crude and other commodities in financial year 2009-10, number of<\/p>\n
      entities which contributed to certain percentage of total trading turnover of<\/p>\n
      each Exchange in Gold, Crude and other commodities in financial year<\/p>\n
      2009-10 inter alia. Moreover, the references made by the Appellant in his<\/p>\n
      first appeal to expressions such as “information on market quality” and “the<\/p>\n
      information on how much of the trading activity was on proprietary account<\/p>\n
      etc” do not seem to have been specifically dealt with by the FAA.<\/p>\n
11. It needs to be noted that the Annual Report of the Respondent Commission<\/p>\n
      for the year 2009-10 (https:\/\/www.fmc.gov.in\/htmldocs\/reports\/Annual<\/p>\n
      %20Reports%20of%20FMC.htm#) is available on their official website.<\/p>\n
      Furthermore, the Respondent Commission fortnightly disseminates data on<\/p>\n
      its                                                                         website<\/p>\n
      (https:\/\/www.fmc.gov.in\/htmldocs\/mreview\/Fortnightly\/FortnightlymarketRe<\/p>\n
      viewList.htm). A Copy of such data for the period of 01\/07\/2011 to<\/p>\n
      15\/07\/2011 has been annexed to this Order as ‘Annexure-A’.<\/p>\n
12.     Careful perusal of the sample data available on the Respondent<\/p>\n
      Commission’s website (marked as “Annexure-A”) shows that the details of<\/p>\n
      Trading Volume (Near Month Contracts and All Contracts) and Value of<\/p>\n
      Trade (Near Month Contracts and All Contracts) along with Total Volume<\/p>\n
                                        6<\/span>
\n                                                                Appeal\u00a0No.CIC\/SS\/A\/2011\/000691<\/p>\n
   and Total Value of trade are given in the fortnightly report for certain<\/p>\n
   Exchanges and the various commodity traded by them.<\/p>\n
13. The Commission is of the opinion that the Question Nos. (xii) and (xiii) of<\/p>\n
   the Appellant’s RTI Application are raising queries in the nature of “How<\/p>\n
   Many”, therefore it is the number or the quantum of certain entities which<\/p>\n
   the Appellant is seeking rather than the personal details of each of those<\/p>\n
   entities. Thus, it will be wrong to say that such information as sought under<\/p>\n
   Question Nos. (xii) and (xiii) will attract Section 8<\/a> (1) (j) of the RTI Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n
   Hence, the Order of the CPIO needs to be reconsidered in this regard.<\/p>\n
14. Thus, in light of the above observations, the Commission is of the opinion<\/p>\n
   that the present appeal needs to be reheard and re-adjudicated afresh by the<\/p>\n
   FAA of the Respondent in light of the statistical data mentioned above. The<\/p>\n
   specific queries of the Appellant raised in his RTI Application can be best<\/p>\n
   dealt with by the FAA of the Respondent in light of the reports and data<\/p>\n
   published by the Respondent Commission regularly on its official website<\/p>\n
   and a sample of which has been marked as Annexure-A to this Order.<\/p>\n
15. Therefore, the Commission hereby directs the FAA of the Respondent to<\/p>\n
   rehear the appeal of the Appellant and decide the matter accordingly. If the<\/p>\n
   Appellant is still not satisfied with the Order of the FAA, he may approach<\/p>\n
                                     7<\/span>
\n                                                                     Appeal\u00a0No.CIC\/SS\/A\/2011\/000691<\/p>\n
this Commission in second appeal under the RTI Act<\/a>. With these<\/p>\n
observations and findings, the present Appeal is disposed of.<\/p>\n
                                                                        Sushma Singh
\n                                                           Information Commissioner
\n                                                        Eleventh day of August, 2011<\/p>\n
Authenticated True Copies<\/p>\n
K.K. Sharma
\nOSD & Deputy Registrar<\/p>\n
Name & Address of Parties<\/p>\n
Sh.\u00a0Prabhakar\u00a0Narkar,\u00a0
\n19A\/402,\u00a0Akshar\u00a0Patrakar\u00a0Society,\u00a0
\nMagathanne,\u00a0Borivali\u00a0(East),\u00a0Mumbai\u00a0\u00ad\u00a066<\/p>\n
The\u00a0CPIO\u00a0&\u00a0Director,\u00a0
\nForward\u00a0Markets\u00a0Commission,\u00a0
\nMinistry\u00a0of\u00a0Consumer\u00a0Affairs,\u00a0Food\u00a0&\u00a0Public,\u00a0Distribution,\u00a0
\nDepartment\u00a0of\u00a0Consumer\u00a0Affairs,\u00a0“EVEREST”\u00a03rd\u00a0Floor,\u00a0
\n100,\u00a0Marine\u00a0Drive,\u00a0Mumbai\u00a0–\u00a0400\u00a0002<\/p>\n
The\u00a0First\u00a0Appellate\u00a0Authority,\u00a0\u00a0
\nForward\u00a0Markets\u00a0Commission,\u00a0
\nMinistry\u00a0of\u00a0Consumer\u00a0Affairs,\u00a0Food\u00a0&\u00a0Public,\u00a0Distribution,\u00a0
\nDepartment\u00a0of\u00a0Consumer\u00a0Affairs,\u00a0“EVEREST”\u00a03rd\u00a0Floor,\u00a0<\/p>\n
                                         8<\/span>
\n                                           Appeal\u00a0No.CIC\/SS\/A\/2011\/000691<\/p>\n
100,\u00a0Marine\u00a0Drive,\u00a0Mumbai\u00a0–\u00a0400\u00a0002<\/p>\n
                                      9<\/span>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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