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The Tamil Nadu Information Commission came down heavy connected a petitioner who sent a bid of petitions seeking accusation for his ain payment nether the Right to Information Act, 2005.
Imposing a punishment of ₹10,000 connected S. Krishnaramanujam, the petitioner, for abusing the provisions of the Act, and besides stalling the enactment of the Public Information Officer by bombarding him with queries, State Information Commissioner R. Priyakumar directed the Revenue Department officials to cod the good magnitude nether the Revenue Recovery Act if helium failed to pay.
The petitioner had sent respective letters to the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Theni, seeking a assortment of accusation from the court. While replies to 33 petitions were sent, Mr. Krishnaramanujam had filed 781 RTI petitions earlier the Principal District Judge, Theni.
Mr. Priyakumar said if the replies were not successful his favour, the petitioner utilized provisions nether the Act to intimidate the nationalist authorities and forestall them from discharging their lawful duties, which resulted successful the discarded of tribunal clip and functions.
The Commission referred to an bid of the Supreme Court which said that the Act should not beryllium allowed to beryllium misused oregon abused, to go a instrumentality to obstruct nationalist improvement and integration, oregon to destruct the peace, tranquility and harmony among citizens.
The apex tribunal had further said that the Act should not beryllium converted into a instrumentality of oppression oregon intimidation of honorable officials striving to bash their duty. “The federation does not privation a script wherever 75% of the unit of nationalist authorities walk 75% of their clip successful collecting and furnishing accusation to applicants alternatively of discharging their regular duties,” the bid said.
Mr. Priyakumar said the bid was applicable to the lawsuit and hence the penalty. The menace of penalties nether the RTI Act and the unit of the authorities nether the aforesaid should not pb to employees of a nationalist offices prioritising ‘information furnishing’, astatine the outgo of their mean and regular duties.
