Asking Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi to repond by November 1, Justice Vipin Sanghi stayed his order setting up an inquiry against Anita Gupta, First Appellate Authority, M C Sharma, retired PIO, S Padmanabha, CPIO and Akash Deep Chakravarti, Deemed PIO and JS(Law) on an application filed by Naveen Kumar Peer under the Right To Information (RTI) Act alleging that the officials have failed to give "satisfactory" reply to his plea.
Justice Sanghi passed the order on the plea of Chakravarti, an IAS officer and presently posted as Deemed PIO and JS(Law) with CIC, through counsel Rajiv Bansal challenging Gandhi's April 19 interim order for the inquiry.
Acting on a RTI plea of Peer alleging that the reply sent by the department was without signature, Gandhi had examined the records and ordered for setting up an inquiry against the CIC officials under section 18 of RTI Act and also summoned them to appear before him.
"A reply from the Legal Cell without any any date and signature or name of person providing the informations states that the appellant (Peer) filed many RTI applications after sending letters which were incoherent....
"The total facts revealed before the commission do not appear to be compatible. The commission is therefore setting up an inquiry under section 18 of RTI Act to uncover the true facts," Gandhi said in the interim order. MORE