consolidated information

CIC/Legal/2010/020

CIC Order No : CIC/WB/2007/01076

Operative Section : Section 19 of the RTI Act.

Brief of CIC Order :

Commission while closing the matter observed

―It is astonishing that consolidated information regarding Departmental Enquiries against Group ―A‖ officers is not being maintained by the Chandigarh Administration. This job, apparently, is required to be done by the personnel Department of the Chandigarh Administration. As the Home Secretary , is the head of Personnel Department of the Chandigarh Administration, he is directed to consolidate this information and communicate the same to the appellant in 06 weeks time from the receipt of this order‖.

Writ Petition No : 20627/2009, Punjab & Haryana High Court.

Issue :

Whether the Commission was justified in directing the petitioner to supply the information after collecting it from all the departments.

Brief of Court Order :

Court disposed the petition while observing,

―It appears that the petitioner –Administration instead of giving a compile list of Grade- A Officers against whom any disciplinary action was ever taken, directed all the Departments to send the required information directly to respondent No 2. Mr. Sawhney respondent No2 states that unless it is certified by the administration that there is no other department or Group-A Officer in relation to whom further information is required to be sent to him, it cannot be ascertained that the letters received by him from different departments contain the complete information sought by him.

Learned counsel for the Administration has no objection against such certification.

The present application is accordingly disposed of with a direction to the Administration to send a letter ‗certifying‘ that there is no other Group-A officer in any other department in relation to whom the information for the corresponding period has not been sent to respondent No. 2‖

Status : Disposed of on 08.12.2011.