[HumJanenge] Re: Information Request : Hearings by Central Information Commission without "legal members"

Subject: REMINDER: Information Request : Hearings by Central
Information Commission without "legal members"

To:
Mr. Pankaj Shreyaskkar
Deputy Secretary & Joint Registrar (Nodal CPIO)
Central Information Commission
at New Delhi

18-Sep-2012

Sir

It is a matter of great concern that the minutes of meeting I
requested have neither been sent to me nor uploaded to the website. In
the circumstances I am unable to comprehend how the Commission is
continuing to hear RTI matters without the legal members in the face
of the Hon'ble Supreme Court's judgment. Some State Information
Commissions have ceased work after this judgment, so the entire public
at large wants to know why / how CIC is still carrying on .

I am also concerned that CIC is organising its Annual Conference /
Convention next month, at the cost of the public exchequer, and
request you to kindly bring it to the notice of all the Information
Commissioners that they should cancel this conference/convention in
view of the emergent situation.

Thanking you,
yours faithfully

Sarbajit Roy

B-59 Defence Colony
New Delhi 110024

On 9/17/12, Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com> wrote:
> To:
> Mr. Pankaj Shreyaskkar
> Deputy Secretary & Joint Registrar (Nodal CPIO)
> Central Information Commission
> at New Delhi
>
> 17-Sep-2012
>
> Sir
>
> From the website of the Commission I note that you are the Nodal CPIO
> for all matters relating to decisions taken by the Commission in its
> weekly meetings,
>
> It appears that a meeting was held recently by the Commission in the wake of
> the
> Supreme Court Judgment in "Namit Sharma versus UoI" whereby all
> Information Commissions have been directed to "henceforth" function
> only in Benches of 2 or more, at least one of the members being a
> "legal member".
>
> As the functioning of the Commission in Benches is in any case only
> carrying on under the interim stay order of the Supreme Court in SLP
> 30152/2011where I am a party, I would request you to immediately send
> me the copy of the aforesaid minutes of meeting (or an other basis)
> whereby the Commission is now conducting hearings into Appeals and
> Complaints in contravention of the Supreme Court's detailed Judgment
> of 13.09.2012.
>
> Kindly treat this matter as very urgent and as a request for
> disclosure under section 4(1)(b),(c) of the RTI Act 2005 which you are
> bound to comply with immediately.
>
> As the matter is also of considerable public interest, you may
> alternatively immediately publish the minutes of meeting on the
> Commission's website under advise to me.
>
> Thanking you,
> yours faithfully
>
> Sarbajit Roy
>
> B-59 Defence Colony
> New Delhi 110024
>