If you feel that the advocate is idiotic and has given bad advice,
what would you say about a Central Information Commissioner who has
given precisely the same decision, namely that information obtained
from a public authority cannot be "privately reproduced" for wider
distribution but can only be provided suo-moto u/s 4 or given u/s 6.
The facts of the case were as follows, an NGO obtained a copy of an
important plan well in advance of its suo-moto publication by some
arrangement with the authority and published it to its partners. An
aggrieved citizen coming to know of this discrimination approached the
public authority u/s 6 to obtain the copy of the same plan with same
right to publish it privately. The Information Commissioner after 3
hearings said upheld the P/As right to deny the information to
applicant if further private publication was anticipated
Sarbajit
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 7:00 AM, Ravindran P M <pmravindran@gmail.com> wrote:
> I do not want to use the term that the advocate, who gave such idiotic
> advice, deserves, but the least that I should say is he should be debarred
> from practising. As a class they are well aware of the consequences if the
> RTI Act is effectively implemented. The most affected will be the judge
> -advocate nexus.
>
> Also I am shocked by the distorted information and contorted logic I have
> highlighted in the mail below (posted on Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 12:23 PM, by
> young cyber indians). The distortion in the information is highlighted in
> yellow and the contorted logic is in red.
>
> If this 'source' is acting like another 'secretive govt organisation'
> the other altenative is for someone to file another application under RTI
> with the IB and get the list afresh. Time consuming, but with the precedence
> there it cannot be more than 30 days.
>
> If the list is NOT disclosed by the receipient in another two days, I shall
> file the fresh application from here and see what happens. Even that could
> be educative.
>
> regards n bw
>
> ravi
>
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