Vigilance Cases against Odisha IAS officers
Dear friends
On 19.5.2011, I had submitted RTI Application to the PIO, Office of Directorate, State Vigilance, Odisha seeking information about details of vigilance cases filed against IAS officers . The information sought for as follows.
a. Please provide name of IAS Officers against whom vigilance charges has been filed by Vigilance Dept during 2001-2010
b. What are the charges of allegations leveled against them by Vigilance.
C. Please provide the information about name of IAS officers against whom the Vigilance has sought permission from State Govt. to charge sheet them.
d. Please provide the information about details of permission granted by Govt. to file charge-sheet against the IAS officers and their names.
The PIO supplied the information of first three points and refused to provide the information of fourth one on the ground of section 8 (1)(h) of the RTI Act. The said provision stipulates that "Information which would impede the process of investigation or apprehension or prosecution of offenders can not be supplied" .
Finding incomplete information, I made Complaint to Odisha Information Commission on dated 25.7.2011 appealing to Commission to provide me information and take punitive action against the PIO for denial of information.
After 8 months, Mr. Tarun Kanti Mishra, State Chief Information Commissioner remanded my case ( CC No- 3010/2011) on 15.3.2012 to the 1st Appellate Authority, office of Director, Vigilance, Cuttack to dispose the case. The Inspector General of Police-cum- 1st Appellate Authority, Vigilance heard the case, dismissed the plea of section 8(1)(h) of RTI Act as ground for denial of information taken by the PIO and provided the following information on 10.4.2012.
| Sl. No. | Name of IAS Officers | No. of cases in which Govt. permission was sought to submit charge-sheet | Details of permission granted by Govt. | Pending with Govt. |
| 1 | Sri Rabindra Mohan Senapati , IAS (retired) | 01 | Refused | - |
| 2 | Sri Santosh Kumar Mishra, IAS | 06 | 06 | - |
| 3 | Sri Sanjeeb Kumar Ray, IAS | 01 | 01 | - |
| 4 | Sri Pradulla Chandra Mishra,IAS | 03 | 01 | 02 |
| 5 | Sri Vinod Kumar, IAS | 24 | 21 | 03 |
| 6 | Sri. S.N.Tripathy, IAS | 03 | Govt. did not consider those three cases as fit for according sanction | - |
| 7 | Sri. R.N. Senapati, IAS | 08 | Govt. did not consider those eight cases as fit for according sanction. | - |
| 8 | Sri Nikunja Kishore Sundaray, IAS | 01 | - | 01 |
| 9 | Dr. Prasant Kumar Pradhan, IAS | 01 | - | 01 |
| 10 | Sri. I. Srinivas, IAS | 01 | Govt. did not consider it fit case for according sanction | - |
Regards
Pradip Pradhan
M-99378-43482
Date-13.5.2012
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