[HumJanenge] COMPLAINT against FAA (First Appellate Authority) of the CIC

To:

The Secretary

Central Information Commission

New Delhi

cc: 

1. Hon'ble MoS, DoPT

2. Secretary, DoPT

From:

C J Karira

Secunderabad                                                    Date 07 May 2015

RE: COMPLAINT against the First Appellate Authority of the Central Information Commission

Dear Madam,

I am constrained to send this email to you to COMPLAIN to you regarding the Non Disposal of my First Appeal by the FAA of your Commission.

As you can very well see from the trailing emails (copies of all emails and letters have been marked to you !), there has been an inordinate delay in disposing off my first appeal. Since this matter pertains to Corruption in the CIC, there is no doubt in my mind that the disposal of this first appeal is being delayed on the prodding of the corrupt persons working in the Central Information Commission.

If you recall, I had also called you about a month ago, before Mr Dash demitted office, and you had assured me to look into the matter and get this matter disposed at the earliest. 

However no such thing happened !

Following is the sequence of events:

 

Details	Date
RTI Application filed with CPIO, CIC, re missing files	14 Jul 2014
Reply of the CPIO, CIC	22 Aug 2014
First Appeal filed with FAA of CIC	08 Sep 2014
Date of First Appeal Hearing & FAA's 1st order	27 Oct 2014
FAA gives further directions to trace the "missing files"	27 Oct 2014
Another First Appeal for non-compliance of FAAs orders	09 Nov 2014
Incomplete information provided by CPIO	28 Nov 2014
Reminder to FAA	03 Dec 2014
Another First Appeal to FAA for incomplete information	10 Dec 2014
FAA passes order and gives more time to CPIO / Registrar to trace missing files and conduct Inquiry	19 Dec 2014
First reminder to FAA	11 Jan 2015
Second reminder to FAA	05 Feb 2015
Several calls to FAA between 23 Feb & 05 April 2015
Third reminder to FAA	18 April 2015
Fourth reminder to FAA	01 May 2015
Fifth reminder to FAA	07 May 2015

As you can clearly see from the above table, I have tried my best to follow all rules

and procedures as well as send timely reminders to the FAA to get his orders implemented.

However, I am now convinced that both Mr A K Dash, the former Adnl Secretary 

cum FAA and  the present FAA Mr Beck, are both part of the same 

CORRUPT MAFIA , existing in the Commission.

Madam, you are part of the Central Information Commission, the apex body for deciding

second appeals / complaints under the RTI Act. If your own senior officers:

- do not follow the time lines specified in the RTI Act 2005

- are not able to enforce their orders on their own subordinates

- do not even reply to 5 reminders over a period of 5 months

then with what face and authority can the Commission direct officers of other public 

authorities and expect the compliance of their orders ?

Since Mr Beck took over as the FAA of the Commission, I have called him more than 15 

times and he has never ever come on the phone. 

His email, as given on the website of the Commission, keeps bouncing.

Madam our Prime Minister keeps talking about "courteous behaviour" of Government

officers towards citizens, but surely, not responding to 15 phone calls cannot be termed as 

"courteous behaviour".

I therefore URGE and REQUEST you to immediately remove such an officer from

the post of FAA and reassign the duties to some other officer who can at least

return calls from applicants/appellants who have been waiting for an order

since more than 6 months.

I also did call you once and left a message with your PA, but the call was

not returned.

Thanking You,

C J Karira