[HumJanenge] Unresolved Public Grievance by me against Mr. Shailesh Gandhi

To:
The Chief Information Commissioner of India
Central Information Commissioner
August Kranti Bhawan,
Bhikaji Cama Place
New Delhi

BY EMAIL

31-Dec-2011

Kind Attn. Mr Satyananda Mishra-ji

Respected Sir,

A few months back the Under-Secretary DoPT had requested the Secretary of the Commission to provide information to the DoPT concerning my public grievance against Mr. Shailesh Gandhi and so that a suitable reply could be given to me (by the DoPT). I have come to learn that the Secretary/CIC has failed to take requisite action on the request of the DoPT so that my public grievance against Mr.Gandhi continues to be unresolved, and Mr Gandhi escapes initiation of prosecution for contravention of the Official Secrets Act while he is in office.

In the meantime, Mr. Shailesh Gandhi has adopted new and innovative methods to misuse his office now that his practice of.directing FIRs to be registered was stopped on my information.

By way of example I am caused to now inform you of Mr Gandhi's practice of levying penalty on "deemed PIOs" to shield the regular PIOs and the First Appellates (who usually fail to pass appeal orders) and on whom the penalty actually devolves. It has come to my knowledge that Mr.Gandhi is assisted in this novel practice by certain private persons, legal interns / consultants, journalists  and NGOs masquerading as "civil society representatives / organisations". It is pertinent that Mr.Gandhi uses an "official" email ID of the Commission "rtimonitoring@gmail.com" to carry out this corrupt practice. The website of the Commission "http://rti.india.gov.in" contains numerous orders of Mr. Gandhi where this email ID is used for this purpose / practice and where high penalties are imposed on so-called "deemed PIOs" in blatant disregard of the RTI Act's provisions which militate against this.

As the next penalty case where Mr. Gandhi shall carry out his "rtimonitoring" exercise is in File: CIC/SG/A/2011/002839 where he proposes to penalise 2 "deemed PIOs" instead of the actual offenders - A) Mr. Jitendra Gupta B) The Appellate Authority c) The Administrator UT of A&N,  I would request you to kindly ensure that Mr. Gandhi is supervised so that innocent officers are not penalised for defaults of their superiors. 

I would also request you to kindly ensure that all communications transiting through the gmail ID in question are impounded and form part of the records of the Commission and are accessible in RTI process to desirous citizens. I am attaching a PDF file containing an email purportedly sent by Mr. Gandhi concerning the creation / usage of this gmail ID and its identity as an email ID of the Commission for official purposes.

Finally I would request that this email is placed before the Commission at its next meeting so that the responsibility of illegally imposing penalties on "deemed PIOs" in contravention of the RTI Act devolves collectively on the Commission as a body and not on Mr Gandhi alone.

With best wishes for the New Year 2012

Yours sincerely

Sarbajit Roy
B-59 Defence Colony
New Delhi 110024