[HumJanenge] URGENT: Public Grievance about your skewed causelist for 07-Aug-2012

To:
Shri Satyananda Mishra
Chief Information Commissioner of India
Central Information Commission
August Kranti Bhawan
New Delhi

06-08-2102

Respected Sir

Regretably I am caused to send another urgent public grievance to you today.

Certain members of the public have complained to me, in my capacity as
moderator of HumJanenge RTI mailing list, about your cause-list for
07-08-2012 as published on website of the Hon'ble Commission, asking
me to represent collectively our grievance.

It appears that your entire day shall be dedicated to hearing cases of
Mr. Subhash Chandra Agrawal, a habitual RTI misuser, who is clogging
up the Central Information Commission with his numerous
frivolous appeals and complaints. It is an open secret that Mr.
Agrawal is quite well off and can indulge in his hobby for luxurious
RTI-ing and deriving personal publicity thereby. It may be considered,
however, that there are hundreds of poor and middle class persons
whose sole / few cases at CIC have been pending for about 3 or 4 years
unheard while Mr. Agrawal's cases being heard tomorrow even include
matters of April 2012..

I would be obliged if the contents of my previous paragraph are
strongly conveyed by you to Mr. Agrawal and possibly reproduced
in-toto in your decision in his matters. There is also the small
matter that Mr. Agrawal continually neglects to affix the Court Fee
stamps prescribed for 2nd Appeals to the
Hon'ble Commission under the Court Fee Act, to his memorandums of
appeal. In the process even this trivial revenue of only a rupee or 2
due to State has been avoided by him. In the circumstances why the
Registry allows such cases to be listed for hearing is a mystery
begging to be solved, and especially.in appeals involving the Hon'ble
Supreme Court of India's CPIO.

I also beg you to consider the alarming increase in pending cases at
the Commission. At the current rate of disposal, the backlog shall
take about 18 months to clear (extrapolating from 28,000 pending
matters and a disposal rate of 1,800 matters per month).

Sir, the website of the Commission is in a shambles. FIles are not
properly indexed. The search system is non-existent. Crucial sections,
regularly monitored by interested citizens, are not updated for months
at a time. As a result it often appears that there is no
accountability in the Commission. As I have previously highlighted,
all these shortcomings can be laid at the doorstep of Mr. Pankaj
Shreyaskar/Joint Registrar who has deliberately allowed this state of
affairs to come to pass to cover up the rotten state of the CIC
Registry.

Sir, kindly take some drastic steps to stem the rot. Mr. Shreyaskar
ought to do his allocated work instead of focussing on unproductive
events like the CIC's Annual RTI conventions.

With best wishes

Sarbajit Roy

B-59 Defence Colony
New Delhi 110024

appended: Cause list for 07-08-2012 for CIC(SM)

1. CIC/SM/A/2011/001757
SA/UG/11/f10671jawq
05-07-2011 SUBHASH CHANDRA AGRAWAL 1775, KUCHA LATTUSHAH, DARIBA,
CHANDNI CHOWK, DELHI- 110006 CBI
CPIOCENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, (POLICY DIVISION), NORTH BLOCK,
NEW DELHI - 110 001 07-08-2012 10.30 CIC, 2ND FLOOR, B WING,
AUGUST KRANTI BHAWAN, BHIKAJI CAMA PLACE, NEW DELHI - 110 066.
Single Bench
2. CIC/SM/A/2011/001756
SA/UG/11/f10670bbao
05-07-2011 SUBHASH CHANDRA AGRAWAL 1775, KUCHA LATTUSHAH, DARIBA,
CHANDNI CHOWK, DELHI- 110006 CBI
CPIOCENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, (ACB), 5-B, CGO COMPLEX, LODHI
ROAD, NEW DELHI - 110 003 07-08-2012 10.45 CIC, 2ND FLOOR, B
WING, AUGUST KRANTI BHAWAN, BHIKAJI CAMA PLACE, NEW DELHI - 110 066.
Single Bench
3. CIC/SM/A/2011/001999
SA/UG/11/f12613w6f0
08-08-2011 SUBHASH CHANDRA AGRAWAL 1775, Kucha Lattushah, Dariba,
Chandni Chowk, Delhi - 110 006 CBI
CPIOCENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, ACB, 1ST FLOOR, B-5, CGO COMPLEX,
LODHI ROAD, NEW DELHI -110003 07-08-2012 10.45 CIC, 2ND FLOOR, B
WING, AUGUST KRANTI BHAWAN, BHIKAJI CAMA PLACE, NEW DELHI - 110 066.
Single Bench
4. CIC/SM/A/2011/001549
SA/UG/11/f8940q17y
06-06-2011 SUBHASH CHANDRA AGRAWAL 1775, KUCHA LATTUSHAH, DARIBA,
CHANDNI CHOWK, DELHI- 110006 CBI
PIOCENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, AC-I, BLOCK NO. 3, 7TH FLOOR, CGO
COMPLEX, LODHI ROAD, NEW DELHI - 110 003 07-08-2012 11.15 CIC,
2ND FLOOR, B WING, AUGUST KRANTI BHAWAN, BHIKAJI CAMA PLACE, NEW DELHI
- 110 066.
Single Bench
5. CIC/SM/A/2011/001755
SA/UG/11/f10663vvfm
05-07-2011 SUBHASH CHANDRA AGRAWAL 1775, KUCHA LATTUSHAH, DARIBA,
CHANDNI CHOWK, DELHI- 110006 CBI
CPIOCENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, (ACB-II), 5-B, 8TH FLOOR, A-WING,
CGO COMPLEX, LODHI ROAD, NEW DELHI - 110 003 07-08-2012 11.30
CIC, 2ND FLOOR, B WING, AUGUST KRANTI BHAWAN, BHIKAJI CAMA PLACE, NEW
DELHI - 110 066.
Single Bench
6. CIC/SM/A/2011/001547
SA/UG/11/f8936m14k
06-06-2011 SUBHASH CHANDRA AGRAWAL 1775, KUCHA LATTUSHAH, DARIBA,
CHANDI CHOWK, DELHI- 110006 CBI
PIOCENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, ANTI CORRUPTION BRANCH, SHASTRI
BHAWAN, CHENNAI - 600 006 07-08-2012 11.45 CIC, 2ND FLOOR, B
WING, AUGUST KRANTI BHAWAN, BHIKAJI CAMA PLACE, NEW DELHI - 110 066.
(VC) Single Bench
7. CIC/SM/A/2011/002285
SA/UG/11/f14548nvf2
21-09-2011 SUBHASH CHANDRA AGRAWAL 1775 KUCHA LATTUSHAH , DARIBA
, CHANDNI CHOWK CBI
CPIOCENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, ANTI CORRUPTION BRANCH, SHASTRI
BHAWAN, CHENNAI - 600 006 07-08-2012 11.45 CIC, 2ND FLOOR, B
WING, AUGUST KRANTI BHAWAN, BHIKAJI CAMA PLACE, NEW DELHI - 110 066.
(VC) Single Bench
8. CIC/SM/A/2011/001754
SA/UG/11/f10662cfkv
05-07-2011 SUBHASH CHANDRA AGRAWAL 1775, KUCHA LATTUSHAH, DARIBA,
CHANDNI CHOWK, DELHI- 110006 CBI
CPIOO/O THE SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, CENTRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION,
ANTI CORRUPTION BRANCH, III FLOOR, KENDRIYA SADAN, SULTAN BAZAAR,
HYDERABAD - 500 095 07-08-2012 12.15 CIC, 2ND FLOOR, B WING,
AUGUST KRANTI BHAWAN, BHIKAJI CAMA PLACE, NEW DELHI - 110 066.
(VC) Single Bench
9. CIC/SM/A/2011/001675
SA/UG/11/f9958mgjn
21-06-2011 Subhash Chandra Agrawal 1775, Kucha Lattushah, Dariba,
Chandni Chowk, Delhi - 110 006 Supreme Court of India
The CPIOSupreme Court of India, New Delhi. 07-08-2012 14.30 CIC,
2ND FLOOR, B WING, AUGUST KRANTI BHAWAN, BHIKAJI CAMA PLACE, NEW DELHI
- 110 066.
Single Bench
10. CIC/SM/A/2011/002059
SA/UG/11/f13430hebi
18-08-2011 SUBHASH CHANDRA AGRAWAL 1775, KUCHA LATTUSHAH DARIBA,
CHANDANI, DELHI-110 006 Supreme Court of India
CPIOSUPREME COURT OF INDIA, TILAK MARG, NEW DELHI - 110 001
07-08-2012 14.30 CIC, 2ND FLOOR, B WING, AUGUST KRANTI BHAWAN,
BHIKAJI CAMA PLACE, NEW DELHI - 110 066.
Single Bench
11. CIC/SM/A/2011/002124
SA/UG/11/f13602hcuz
29-08-2011 SUBHASH CHANDRA AGRAWAL 1775, KUCHA LATTUSHAH DARIBA,
CHANDANI, DELHI-110 006 Supreme Court of India
CPIOSUPREME COURT OF INDIA, TILAK MARG, NEW DELHI - 110 001
07-08-2012 14.30 CIC, 2ND FLOOR, B WING, AUGUST KRANTI BHAWAN,
BHIKAJI CAMA PLACE, NEW DELHI - 110 066.
Single Bench
12. CIC/SM/A/2012/000755
SA/UG/12/f7524qkha
26-04-2012 SUBHASH CHANDRA AGRAWAL R/O: 1775, KUCHA LATTUSHAH,
DARIBA CHANDNI CHOWK, DELHI - 110006 Supreme Court of India
CPIOO/o THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA, TILAK MARG, NEW DELHI - 110 001
07-08-2012 14.30 CIC, 2ND FLOOR, B WING, AUGUST KRANTI BHAWAN,
BHIKAJI CAMA PLACE, NEW DELHI - 110 066.
Single Bench .