[IAC] Information sought under Right to Information Act 2005

Tue Apr 30 08:46:07 PDT 2013

Mr NK Gupta,
     I am not too surprised at the intimidating language used by you in replying to IAC actvists effort to seek information to guard national interests concerning an extremely sensitive establishment viz, DEA. this unfortunately has become the usual practice of the powers that be . having retired after almost 40 years service & experience of dealing with state as well as central Govt at various levels ,i have personal experience of this trend. can you deny that the surest guarantee for prtection of national interest is a watchfull & inquisitive public . this is more important where the governance is shrouded in secrecy or lacks transparency a la a colonial power.  
     in view of the foregoing may we request you to be a facilitator  and an obstacle in the process of guarding  national interest by a watchful citizenry. be assured no one is going to be cowed down by your unfounded & rather juvenile threats of legal action !

 == National Convener , SSSM 

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> From: Satish Bonthu <bonthusatish at gmail.com>
>To: India Activists Collective <india at lists.resist.ca> 
>Cc: pradeep at barc.gov.in; khopkar at dpsdae.gov.in; skm at dae.gov.in; ashrivas at dpsdae.gov.in; nicnet at lists.resist.ca; admo3 at dpsdae.gov.in; s.mishra at nic.in 
>Sent: Tuesday, 30 April 2013 8:17 PM
>Subject: Re: [IAC] Information sought under Right to Information Act 2005
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>Dear NK Gupta,
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>Is it a prior requisite to visit the concerned premises to make an assessment of the documents while in nature and spirit of disclosing information to Public is curtailed by such objections; why cannot this process be handed over in registered postal service? 
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>a information seeker is trying to put in plain public the questions posed and why is there a serious credibility issue from your department's side, for one the intention to seek information is not malefic but to know your intent and next possibility of vested interests harming the information seeker can not be ruled out when in broad daylights few brave souls were killed in Maharashtra.  
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>One should not feel insulted with harsh words of the petitioner as he is not keen on slandering you but to understand certain dubious activities or claims in your department. If you are not accountable to public? who else. After all, all Government bodies are Public funded in public interest. 
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>On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 5:08 PM, <nkgupta at dpsdae.gov.in> wrote:
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>We are in receipt of your mail dated 29th April 2013 wherein you have cast
>>serious, baseless and malicious allegations against a public authority and
>>distorted the facts by saying that information has been denied to you as
>>directed by CIC vide their order No. CIC/SM/A/2012/001398 dated 08th March
>>2013. You may refer to our earlier letters dated 28th March 2013 and 19th
>>April 2013 wherein you were asked to visit this office to have an
>>examination of the documents.  Therefore, the allegation that the
>>documents have been denied to you against the CIC directives are not at
>>all tenable and absolutely baseless.  Your intent to malign the department
>>by baseless allegations and usage of unparliamentary language against a
>>public authority  may lead to initiation of legal action by the
>>Department.  A copy of this mail is being endorsed to the CIC.
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>>In compliance with the CIC directives, you can still visit this office
>>with prior intimation for seeing the records at DPS or any of the DAE
>>office situated in Mumbai.
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>>N.K. Gupta
>>Public Information Officer &
>>Joint Director, P&S.
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>>Cc:     Shri Satyananda Mishra
>>        Chief Information Commissioner
>>        Mumbai -   – w.r.t. Order No. CIC/SM/A/2012/
>>                      001398 dated 08th March 2013. (*)
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>>  :     Shri S.K. Malhotra,
>>        Head, Public Awareness Divn.,
>>        Department of Atomic Energy,
>>        Anushakti Bhavan, CSM Marg,
>>        Mumbai - 400 001. email: skm at dae.gov.in (*)
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>>  :     Dr.K.S. Pradeepkumar,
>>        Head, RSSD, BARC
>>        email: pradeep at barc.gov.in - w.r.t. indent No.BARC/MLZ/HPD/0/
>>                          09-10/1998 dated 17.04.2009 .  (*)
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>>   :     Dy.Director, P&S-I, DPS.
>>   :     APIO/Admn.Officer,DPS.
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>>> *To* *:*
>>> Shri N.K. Gupta,
>>> Joint Director P&S/CPIO,
>>> Directorate of Purchase and Stores,
>>> Vikram Sarabhai Bhawan, Anushakti Nagar,
>>> *Mumbai-400094*
>>> Date: 27.04.2013
>>> *Subject: Your letter DPS/JD/RTI-09(168)/2013/555 dated 19.04.2013*
>>>           By your letter above mentioned you have again requested me to
>>> visit the Directorate at Mumbai with prior appointment for inspection of
>>the records despite my previous objection to this.
>>>           Please note that your offer to merely provide me inspection of
>>a
>>> few records at Mumbai, which records also you are not prepared to list
>>out
>>> for me in advance, does not meet my requirements, since the *form* of
>>information access I have requested the information to be provided to me is
>>> in the form of authenticated / true copy(s) of such records as have been
>>very well specified by me and are very well known to you.
>>>           Please refer my previous letter whereupon I had specifically
>>> called upon you to confirm if it was your case that the information I
>>had
>>> requested was voluminous in nature and would disproportionately divert
>>your
>>> dept's resources. I had also requested you to provide me a list of
>>documents which would be provided to me along with the number of pages
>>which I would be given inspection of (which is the primary duty of the
>>PIO).
>>>           I observe that you have neither been able to confirm that the
>>> information is voluminous etc., nor have you provided me the list of
>>information which you hold and shall disclose to me.
>>>           Accordingly, I am caused to believe that you are in league
>>with
>>> certain anti-national mafias (*controlled from Pakistan*) who are
>>looting
>>> your department with impunity, so as to lure me to Mumbai under the
>>pretext
>>> of providing me information there.
>>>           I therefore call upon you to immediately provide me (within 14
>>> days of my letter) by Registered Post the duly authenticated
>>photo-copies
>>> of all the files (complete in all respects) which the Honourable CIC had
>>directed is to be given to me vide order dt 08.03.2013 in F.No.
>>> CIC/SM/A/2012/001398.
>>>           *You may particularly take note that you are in wilful
>>> breach/disobedience of a clear direction issued by a public servant
>>acting
>>> under his lawful powers directing you to provide me the said information
>>within 10 working days, after all your frivolous objections and denials
>>were dismissed in appeal, and which has attained FINALITY.*
>>>           Also take notice that I believe that anti-national officers
>>like
>>> yourself, acting as puppets of the nation's enemies, ought also to be
>>reported to the National Investigation Agency (or other specialist bodies)
>>> and I shall do so if you persist with your corrupt and mis-conductive
>>ways
>>> and don't provide me the information in hardcopy and forthwith as was
>>directed.
>>>           Due to the threat perception from you and your conspirators, I
>>> am
>>> circulating this email widely throughout the nation to anti-corruption
>>activists, and with copies to all the Senior Govt functionaries,
>>including
>>> your Dept�s Minister and the Secretary over the "NICNET" so that the
>>true
>>> state of affairs inside the Dept of Atomic Energy is known.
>>> (*Dr Sandeep Kumar Gupta*,)
>>> General Secretary
>>> (*India Against Corruption*)
>>> 1778, Sector 14, Hisar-125001, Haryana
>>> 09992931181
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