Re: [IAC#RG] VIGILANCE PETITION : Concerning Shri Amarjit Singh (Under Secretary) & CPIO

To:
Shri Shyamal Kumar Sarkar
Secretary/DoPT

Sir,

Sub:  Bribery of your Dept officers, including yourself,  by Shri K.B. "Anna" Hazare / his associates such as a) Mr. Arvind Kejriwal IRS, b) Mr. Shanti Bhushan, Sr. Adv. c) Mr. Prashant Bhushan, Adv. d) Justice (Retd). Santosh Hegde.

Please refer to the recent automated email received from the DARPG's CPGRAM system informing me that my complaint no. DOPAT/E/2012/00654 dated 11 Aug 2012 was disposed off on 05 Feb 2014 with the casual remark "submitted in file No.104/49/2014-AVD.I on 05.02.2014"

It is very strange that a duly registered Public Grievance which is meant to be disposed off in 2 (or at the most 3) months is closed and consigned to file after almost 2 years in such a highly sensitive matter.

As it is an open secret that you are a highly pliable (ie. one who lacks spine) officer, I would request you to kindly ensure personally that the true copy of the entire file as mentioned (which presumably contains the information I requested) be conveyed to me immediately (and not later than 7 days from today) and free of cost so that I may know (in terms of section 4 RTI Act 2005) the reasons for this corrupt administrative action of your Dept. and take such further action as I deem fit.

with best wishes

Er. Sarbajit Roy
National Convenor,
India Against Corruption, jan andolan

B-59 Defence Colony
New Delhi 110024

On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 6:06 AM, Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com> wrote:

To:
Shri Shyamal Kumar Sarkar
Secretary/DoPT

Sir,

Kindly advise me of the outcome of the below appended vigilance
complaint dt. 19/04/2011I sent to your department's CVO. It is
pertinent to mention that such complaints are to be disposed off
within 3 months as per the CVC notification dated 23.05.2000 but the same appears to be pending for over 2 years now.

with best wishes

Er. Sarbajit Roy
National Convenor, India Against Corruption, jan andolan

B-59 Defence Colony
New Delhi 110024

On 4/19/11, Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com> wrote:
> To:
> Shri Alok Kumar
> Chief Vigilance Officer/Ministry of Personnel
>
> BY EMAIL
>
> 19-April-2011
>
> Sir
>
> I am caused to complain that the following officers of your Ministry
> have corruptly accepted illegal gratification on behalf of one Mr.
> "Anna" Hazare and his associates to not discharge their official
> duties to provide me information I demanded from them under the
> statutory process of Right To Information Act 2005 (section 4). It is
> pertinent that I sought to know why Mr Anna Hazare and his associates
> were favoured over me for appointment to a Committee for drafting
> Central Lok Pal Bill falling under your Ministry's subject allocation.
>
> 1) Mr  Amarjit Singh (Under Secretary AVD-IV)/CPIO
> 2) Mr K.G.Verma / Director RTI
> 3) Mr. Rajiv Kapur / Joint Secretary AT&A
>
> I am appending inline the messages I sent to all of the above on
> 11-April-2011 and earlier which is self explanatory.
>
> I request you to kindly take all necessary measures to ensure that the
> above officers carry out their duties in a honest manner. I am ready,
> able and willing to provide any further assistance and clarifications
> you may require. I would be obliged if you would kindly acknowledge
> receipt of this email.
>
> Yours faithfully
>
> Sarbajit Roy
>
> B-59 Defence Colony
> New Delhi 110024
>
> Tel: 09311448069

On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 6:06 AM, Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com> wrote:

To:
Shri Shyamal Kumar Sarkar
Secretary/DoPT

Sir,

Kindly advise me of the outcome of the below appended vigilance
complaint dt. 19/04/2011I sent to your department's CVO. It is
pertinent to mention that such complaints are to be disposed off
within 3 months as per the CVC notification dated 23.05.2000 but the
same appears to be pending for over 2 years now.

with best wishes

Er. Sarbajit Roy
National Convenor, India Against Corruption, jan andolan

B-59 Defence Colony
New Delhi 110024

On 4/19/11, Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com> wrote:
> To:
> Shri Alok Kumar
> Chief Vigilance Officer/Ministry of Personnel
>
> BY EMAIL
>
> 19-April-2011
>
> Sir
>
> I am caused to complain that the following officers of your Ministry
> have corruptly accepted illegal gratification on behalf of one Mr.
> "Anna" Hazare and his associates to not discharge their official
> duties to provide me information I demanded from them under the
> statutory process of Right To Information Act 2005 (section 4). It is
> pertinent that I sought to know why Mr Anna Hazare and his associates
> were favoured over me for appointment to a Committee for drafting
> Central Lok Pal Bill falling under your Ministry's subject allocation.
>
> 1) Mr  Amarjit Singh (Under Secretary AVD-IV)/CPIO
> 2) Mr K.G.Verma / Director RTI
> 3) Mr. Rajiv Kapur / Joint Secretary AT&A
>
> I am appending inline the messages I sent to all of the above on
> 11-April-2011 and earlier which is self explanatory.
>
> I request you to kindly take all necessary measures to ensure that the
> above officers carry out their duties in a honest manner. I am ready,
> able and willing to provide any further assistance and clarifications
> you may require. I would be obliged if you would kindly acknowledge
> receipt of this email.
>
> Yours faithfully
>
> Sarbajit Roy
>
> B-59 Defence Colony
> New Delhi 110024
>
> Tel: 09311448069
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 12:23 AM
> Subject: Re: DEMAND for Information u/s 4(4) of RTI Act 2005
> To: dirrti-dopt@nic.in, diradmn@nic.in, jsata@nic.in
>
>
> To:
> Joint-Secretary / ATA/ DoPT (and public grievance officer) for necessary
> action
>
> Sir,
>
> I refer to the rejection (truncated) email below.
>
> I am now aggrieved that the duly designated/notified CPIO under you is
> refusing to accept / rejecting my RTI related email as below. I have
> obtained (by faithfully copy-pasting) the email ID of the CPIO from
> the persmin website today.
>
> Please ensure that I receive the demanded information immediately so
> as to resolve my grievance as I am concerned that this is a systemic
> failure and not individual one.
>
> NB: Apparently cc's of the said bounced email have been received by
> Dir/RTI and Dir/Admin of DoPT without bouncing back..
>
> Yours faithfully
>
> Sarbajit Roy
> B-59 Defence Colony
> New Delhi 110024
> TeL ; 09311448069
>
>
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> Subject: DEMAND for Information u/s 4(4) of RTI Act 2005
> From: Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com>
> To: usavd4@nic.in, dirrti-dopt@nic.in, diradmn@nic.in
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>
> To:
> Shri Amarjit Singh (AVD-4)/DoPT,
> Central Public Information Officer/RTI Act
>
> 10-April-2010
>
> BY EMAIL
>
> Sir
>
> I refer to recent media reports concerning the purported setting up of
> Committee(s) for Central Lok Pal legislation referring *inter-alia* to the
> unprecedented step of including various members of public / civil society
> in
> it. I also refer to questions answered in Lok Sabha during the past 1 year
> by the Hon'ble MoS/DoPT on the status of Central Lok Pal legislation. In
> the
> interest of brevity I am not specifying these reports/questions since these
> are matters of record.
>
> Accordingly, I am caused to *DEMAND* the following information be *
> DISSEMINATED* suitably to me free of cost in the electronic form *
> IMMEDIATELY* to safeguard my Fundamental Rights listed in the Constitution
> of India. I am given to understand from the Persmin website today that you
> are the dealing CPIO for "Central Lok Pal legislation".
>
> NB: As this is a DEMAND for information dissemination u/s 4(4) r/w
> sub-sections 4(1)(b), 4(1)(c), 4(1)(d) and 4(3) of RTI Act 2005, I am not
> required to pay the Rs.10 application fee prescribed for "requests" for
> information made u/s 6(1) of RTI Act.
>
> Information required
>
> 1) Copy of all notifications or orders or circulars or any other official
> communication constituting committee(s) / council(s) / board(s) by whatever
> noun or description etc in connection with
> a) the formulation (incl. drafting) of Central  Lok Pal legislation, or
> b) advising on the formulation of Central Lok Pal legislation,
> as the case may be.
>
> 2)  All relevant facts concerning the formulation of the Central Lok Pal
> legislation.
>
> 3)  Provide reasons why I was not appointed / nominated to the said
> committee(s) / council(s) /  boards(s) etc.. I say that I am an affected
> person for this limited purpose. In the alternative the reasons why a few
> other members of the public / civil society (if any) were appointed /
> nominated may be disseminated to me.
>