[rti_india] RTI EDUCATION SERIES – 004 (supplementary 01 to main) [3 Attachments]

Friday, January 25, 2013

[rti_india] RTI EDUCATION SERIES – 004 (supplementary 01 to main) [3 Attachments]

[Attachment(s) from Surendera M. Bhanot included below]

RTI EDUCATION SERIES – 004 (supplementary 01 to main)

We all learn from the experience of day-to-day happenings and bring about a change in our style of work and habits. We react to and observe those changes in life to make our life and the life of others better. We cannot be remaining unaware of the changes that take place in the environment around us and we make ourselves capable to live upto those changes. This educative series lets us know the changes in the Right to Information Act 2005 sphere taking place and to make ourselves adaptable to those changes to make the Right to Information Act 2005 regime even stronger.

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INFORMATION COMMISSIONERS CANNOT BE AGGRIEVED AND CANNOT GO TO COURT

SC raps Karnataka information commissioner

New Delhi:Jan 18, 2013,DH News Service

Further to the RTI EDUCATION SERIES – 001, here is the supplementary to it. In its judgement (as per RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS available to me – main judgement is not yet uploaded) not only the Hon'ble Supreme Court has dismissed the petition of the Karnataka State Information Commission as frivolous, and fine of Rs. 1,00,000.00 (Rupees one lac only) has also been imposed on the petitioner citing:

"The entire exercise undertaken by the Commission and the Karnataka Information Commissioner to challenge the orders of the learned Single Judge and the Division Bench of the High Court shows that the concerned officers have wasted public money for satisfying their ego. If respondent No.2 felt aggrieved by the order of the learned Single Judge, nothing prevented him from challenging the same by filing writ appeal. However, the fact of the matter is that he did not question the order of the learned Single Judge. The Commission and the Karnataka Information Commissioner had no legitimate cause to challenge the order passed by the learned Single Judge and the Division Bench of the High Court. Therefore, the writ appeal filed by the commission was totally unwarranted and misconceived and the Division Bench of the High Court did not commit any error by dismissing the same."

"With the above observations, the special leave petition is dismissed. For filing a frivolous petition, the petitioner is saddled with cost of Rs.1,00,000/-. The amount of cost shall be deposited by the petitioner with the Supreme Court Legal Services Committee within a period of 2 months from today. If the needful is not done, the Secretary of the Supreme Court Legal Services Committee shall recover the amount of cost from the petitioner as arrears of land revenue."

The Copy of the RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS is attached herewith together with the Judgement of the High Court of Karnataka Judgement in case WA-3255/2010 (GM-RES) dated 15 June 2012 which was appealed against by the Karnataka Information Commission.

Source: http://www.rtiindia.org/forum/108907-rti-court-decision-sc-raps-k-taka-information-commissioner.html#post265563

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RTIFED Comments: This reminds me the Vision of bench headed by Justice Sawtantar Kumar in the Judgement in Namit Sharma vs. Union of india WP-210 of 2012.

LESSON: "Performing with No or Little Knowledge is a Dangerous Proposition"

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