NEW DELHI, Oct 26:
Records cannot be destroyed even under weeding-out policy if a citizen has sought information related to them through the RTI route as doing it would be a violation of the transparency law, the Central Information Commission has held.
The transparency panel passed this stricture while hearing the plea of Ashok Dixit who sought some information from Delhi Technological University here but was denied on the pretext that records carrying the information have been weeded out.
Taking a stern view of the varsity’s explanation, Information Commissioner Sridhar Acharyulu issued a show cause notice to the university asking why a maximum penalty of Rs 25,000 not be slapped on it for not providing information. (PTI)
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