Re: [HumJanenge] RTI misuse: NGO to cough up 75K

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Re: [HumJanenge] RTI misuse: NGO to cough up 75K

They deserved it. Its because of some pests like this that we all RTI Activists are branded as nuisance.

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 9:26 PM, sandeep kumar <drsandgupta@gmail.com> wrote:

good move by high court. these type of persons abusing the
transparency law must be punished.

On 11/10/11, M.K. Gupta <mkgupta100@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> RTI misuse: NGO to cough up 75K
>
> Abhinav Garg TNN
>
> New Delhi: Harassment through misuse of RTI Act can cost you dearly.
>
> An
> NGO that used to hound MCD officials by swarming them with offensive
> RTI querieshaslearntthisthehard way.The Supreme Court has asked
> Paardarshita Public Welfare tocoughup a fineofRs 75,000 and pay
> ittotheBlindRelief Association,dismissing its plea to set aside a Delhi
> high court order.
> A division bench comprising Justice D K Jain and
> JusticeA nilKD ave rejectedthe argument put forward by the NGO and its
> general secretary Harkishan DasNirjhawan that the HC needlessly
> penalized them for seeking information under the transparency act.
> Nirjhawan
> had earned the courts wrath for demanding answers under RTI on sexual
> health and parentage of some of MCDs officials.HC was not amused when in
> November last year,the MCD informed it that Nirjhawan,who had then
> filed a PIL on alleged corruption in the organization of Commonwealth
> Games,constantly terrified them by threatening to expose them by filing
> such RTIs.
> The PIL sought an inquiry intotheinvolvementof certain MCD
> engineers in the Commonwealth Games scam.It alleged corruption on the
> part of the engineering department of the MCD,saying the engineers
> siphoned off public funds.
> HC dismissed the PIL and imposed a
> punitive fine on the NGO for RTI misuse.However,an unrepentant Nirjhawan
> chosetochallengetheHCorder before the apex court.Sources in the MCD
> claim despite the strong HC penalty,he still moves around in various
> offices of the civic agency carrying secret electronic gadgets to
> terrorize the officials.
> Withtheostensible purpose of nailing the
> corrupt,the NGO resortstobullying andintimidation,threatening MCD staff
> withcourtcases and more RTIs,agency officials said.
> Now,with even the
> apex court throwing out Nirjhawans appeal,many hope the NGO will mend
> its ways.In one of his RTIs that left the HC shocked,Nirjhawan asked the
> MCD to tell if some of its officials in the south zone area suffered
> from sexually-transmitteddiseases,if any of them had a surrogate or
> stepmother and their details and asked for a DNA report of an engineer
> in MCD to ascertain his parentage.RTI is a great act,it is people like
> you who give it a bad name, the bench had then observed,surprised to see
> how an NGO purportedly dedicated to eliminating corruption could
> adoptsuchlowtacticsfor a private agenda.
> abhinav.garg@timesgroup.com

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