Key Points
In a significant order, a bench of the Central Information Commission at New Delhi headed by chief information commissioner YK Sinha has warned the then Bhalwal tehsildar Amit Upadhayay for providing delayed information to the information seeker advocate Sheikh Shakeel Ahmed...
Advocate Ahmed had moved an RTI application on April 7, 2021, seeking information with regard to the state land comprised in khasra number 1789 situated in Ghaink village of Bhalwal tehsil, under the alleged illegal occupation of former deputy chief minister Kavinder Gupta...
While expressing displeasure over the conduct of the then Bhalwal tehsildar, the CIC directed that such lapses in future will attract necessary penal action as per the RTI Act-2005...
The CIC, while disposing of the second appeal filed by Advocate Sheikh Shakeel Ahmed on January 20, had issued an explanation to Upadhayay to justify the delay in supplying the information to the information seeker and also directed as to why penal action be not initiated against him for violation of the mandated timeline as provided under the RTI Act-2005...
