BJP calls AAP’s denial of medicine to Kejriwal claim a stunt
Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva said the AAP is trying to gain sympathy for the jailed Delhi chief minister through the claim.
The CIC has directed Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to appear before it in a matter pertaining to an RTI applicant seeking information related to his service records as an Indian Revenue Service officer and an NGO he ran.
Information Commissioner Bimal Julka ordered that Kejriwal will either have to present himself or his authorised representative to argue whether information sought by Ketan Modi of Mumbai from the Income Tax department should be disclosed or not.
Modi has sought to know details of Kejriwal as an IRS officer — salary, leaves, absence from service, tax evasion cases detected by him, permission to float an NGO, departmental action against him, if any.
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The I-T department told him that the information sought pertains to “third party”, i.e Kejriwal, which can be disclosed only after taking his consent as per the provisions of Section 11 of the RTI Act.
The section allows a central public information officer to take views of the party about whom the information has been sought through an RTI application.
However, the act allows disclosure of information even after lack of consent if the public interest in disclosure outweighs in importance any possible harm or injury to the interests of such third party
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