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Central Information Commission:<\/strong> While relying upon the Supreme Court decision in Central\u00a0Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)<\/em> v. Aditya Bandhopadhyay<\/em>, (2011) 8 SCC 497<\/a>, the\u00a0Information Commissioner Shri Divya Prakash Sinha has held that the RTI applicants shall not\u00a0resort to clogging the functioning of the public authority by filing mundane RTI applications,\u00a0and such recourse to RTI Act is an abuse of the process of law.<\/p>\n

The appellant had filed approximately 6443 RTI applications to various CPIOs of Indian Air\u00a0Force that covered subject-matters primarily pertaining to income and expenditure of various\u00a0forms of Non-Public Funds. He contended that by seeking such multitude of information he\u00a0aimed to bring in transparency and accountability to IAF. He added that he was forced to file so\u00a0many RTI applications with one CPIO as there were only 8 CPIOs in the Indian Air Force. The respondents submitted that in each RTI application, appellant has asked for voluminous\u00a0information which was not readily available and was also cumbersome to compile, and\u00a0compilation if attempted would disproportionately divert the resources of the organization,\u00a0accordingly, information was denied under Section 7(9) of the RTI Act.<\/p>\n

The CIC noted that it would have been cogent for the appellant to have filed RTI Applications\u00a0systematically in a structured manner, with specific requests bringing them clearly within the\u00a0definition of Section 2(f) of the RTI Act. It was also observed that at no particular stage during\u00a0the pendency of the appeals did it appear that the respondents had adopted deliberate tactics for\u00a0not parting with the information sought. The Commission thus concluded that the application of\u00a0Section 7(9) of the RTI Act in the instant appeals was legitimate. However, in its advisory\u00a0opinion, the Commission admitted that the lack of sufficient number of CPIOs\/APIOs in IAF\u00a0raised serious concerns, and suggested that there should be at least 1 CPIO and 1 APIO at every\u00a0unit or station level. [Wg. Cdr. Sanjeev Sharma v. CPIOs, Indian Air Force, 2017 SCC OnLine CIC 534<\/a>, decided on 18.04.2017]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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