No information on Aarogya Setu app creators, says Centre; CIC fumes

Under normal circumstances, RTI applicants would appeal for information and the process would be prolonged

The Central Information Commission (CIC) has issued show-cause notices to the National e-Governance Division (NeGD), the National Informatics Centre (NIC), and the Department of Electronics as to why a penalty under the Right to Information Act should not be imposed on them for obstruction of information about the contentious contact tracing app, Aarogya Setu. 

Filed by RTI activist Saurav Das, the application sought answers to some questions: Who built the Aarogya Setu app? Who proposed the need for a contact tracing app? What communications occurred between the makers of the app and the government? “I filed the RTI query in July