Chief Information Commissioner slaps Rs25k fine on SI for false information
29 Aug 2014 4:21 AM GMT
CIC recommended action under RTI Act 20 (1) and (2) for giving false information
Chief Information Commissioner Sibi Mathews
KOCHI: (CIC) Sibi Mathews has ordered a fine of Rs25,000 and departmental action against Ernakulam Central Police Station principal sub-inspector V.Vimal for giving false information to a Right to Information query in connection with a case.The order has been issued on a petition filed by Eljose C.Chummar, a native of Ayyappankavu in Ernakulam. Eljose had sought certain answers in his RTI query to Vimal on December 3, 2013, pertaining to his arrest at 4.50 pm on October 12, 2013. Eljose said his father was summoned to the police station and an original will he possessed was extracted by threatening him at 8 pm on the same day.
Eljose raised three questions through the RTI query to Vimal: Whether the said will was still in the custody of the police, whether it was submitted to the court and if submitted, when it was done. Vimal replied on January 4 that the said will was not in the custody of the police and it was submitted to the court on October 12, 2013. In another RTI petition on January 30, 2014, Eljose queried in which court it had been submitted and he sought copies of the evidence.
Vimal gave a reply on February 27, 2014, saying that it was submitted at the Ernakulam Chief Judicial Magistrate Court. He sent copies of the evidence on April 1, but since they were incomplete and not clear, Eljose again sought another copy on April 14.Later, as per the order of the CIC, Vimal submitted a report to him in this regard. He said the claims that he had forged them were not true and the will was given to the dispatch section on October 12, 2013, along with the report, for being submitted to the court.
The CIC on verifying the documents found that the will was submitted to the court only on October 17, 2013. However, this was not clear in the document given to Eljose by Vimal. Eljose also did not ask for the date on which it was given to the dispatch section but specifically asked when it was given to the court. The CIC recommended action under RTI Act 20 (1) and (2) for giving false information.
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