2012 (9) TMI 1127

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..... nda Mishra 2. The Appellant and the Respondents were present in our chamber. We heard their submissions. 3. The Appellant had referred to a news item published in the Hindustan Times on 16 March 2010 depicting the then Chief Minister of U.P being presented with a garland made of ₹ 1000 currency notes and had wanted to know several details arising out of this. He had filed his RTI a .....

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..... red information. In a speaking order, the Appellate Authority had endorsed the stand taken by the CPIO. He had held that, within the meaning of Section 6(3) of the Right to Information Act, the CPIO was not obliged to transfer the RTI application to other public authorities. 4. During the hearing, we carefully considered the contents of the RTIapplication, the response of both the CPIO and t .....

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..... re categorical reply would have been given to the Appellant. 5. We have something called a Ministry of Finance with a Finance Secretary in position. Therefore, it is rather odd that the Ministry does not itself have a CPIO. Even if it is admitted that the Ministry operates through various departments under it, the Ministry itself is in existence as a public authority and, therefore, it needs .....

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