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RTI activist sends legal notice to prime minister
Monday December 17, 2012 06:30:42 PM,
IANS
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Lucknow: An Uttar
Pradesh Right to Information (RTI) activist has sent a legal
notice to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for his comment on the
"frivolous and vexatious use of the RTI Act" in his address at the
7th annual convention of information commissioners in Delhi Oct
12.
"There are concerns about frivolous and vexatious use of the (RTI)
Act in demanding information, the disclosure of which cannot
possibly serve any public purpose," the prime minister said.
"...Concerns have also been raised regarding possible infringement
of personal privacy while providing information under the Right to
Information Act."
RTI activist Urvashi Sharma said that after the observations by
Prime Minister Singh, an RTI was filed with the office of Central
Information Commission (CIC) asking for information on all such
applications that were personal in nature and were made to hog the
limelight.
In a letter (no.CIC/CPIO/2012/1850 dated 03-12-12), Director and
Nodal CPIO-Central Information Commission Pankaj Shreyaskar
informed Sharma that "no information in this regard is available
with the commission".
She said the "last destinations of RTI applications are
information commissions and the seven-year record of the CIC does
not have even a single paper to validate the claims made by the
prime minister".
"The reply is self-explanatory. It made it clear that no personal,
frivolous and vexatious RTI applications have ever been filed in
these seven years," the RTI activist told IANS.
She said that being a social and RTI activist, she was deeply hurt
by the anti-RTI statement.
Through her notice, Sharma has asked Singh to "either put the
documentary evidences to support your statement before the nation
or take your words back and issue a public apology".
In case Singh does not withdraw his statement or apologize within
60 days, Sharma threatens to move court or a suitable forum
against him.
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