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He further stated that the respondent had produced the relevant records before the High Court and had deliberately furnished incorrect information.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Further, the commission on due consideration of the contentions of the parties observed that the respondent had stated that documents being sought are 15 years old and are not traceable. However, respondent informed the Commission that the ACRs of the complainant out after the final judgment of the court as mentioned above. Show cause notice was issued to the respondent due to the incorrect reply furnished to the complainant. [Manohar Singh v. CPIO, NTPC,<a href=\"http:\/\/scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/4D8n1l28\"><b>2018 SCC OnLine CIC 1419<\/b><\/a>, Order dated 21-08-2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Central Information Commission (CIC): A Single-Member Bench comprising of Sudhir Bhargava, Information Commissioner while disposing of a complaint concerning furnishing of incorrect <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8808,"featured_media":22383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[31629,31628,18281],"class_list":["post-200707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-tribunals_commissions_regulatorybodies","tag-acrs","tag-incorrect-information","tag-show-cause-notice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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