TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
2014 (1) TMI 993
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....retary and Ms. Asha Sota, US & CAPIO. However, none was present for the office of the Solicitor General of India as the notice for hearing was not issued to them. The Complainant was present in person. 2. The facts giving rise to the instant complaint are that the Complainant had filed an RTI application dated 7-1-2013 before the CPIO, Solicitor General of India seeking certain information (like, date and diary number of representation; copy of and mode of delivery of the same; date-wise action taken on it; copies of note sheet dealing with it etc.) about the processing of a representation dated 25-8-2011 of the Indirect Tax Practitioner Association, Bangalore seeking permission for moving contempt petition against the Complainant. ....
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....e records. 7. The Complainant then, being dissatisfied with the reply/action on his RTI application by the Department of Legal Affairs, approached the Commission by way of instant complaint u/s 18 of the RTI Act, inter alia, demanding that an enquiry be instituted u/s 18(2) of the RTI Act in order to verify the Respondents' statement that representation in question is not traceable in their department. He has also demanded the penal action be initiated against the CAPIO, Ms. Asha Sota and Sh. G.D. Sharma, Under Secretary of Department of Legal Affairs. 8. During the hearing, the Complainant, while wondering as to how his RTI application had reached the CAPIO, Department of Legal Affairs, while the same was filed by him with ....
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....ted at the office of the Solicitor General of India and that they (Department of Legal Affairs) look after the administrative matter in relation to the office of the Solicitor General of India. Therefore, the RTI application was dealt with/replied to by them. They also claim that the office of the Solicitor General of India is not a public authority under the RTI Act as it falls under the same footing as that of the office of Attorney General of India, which has been declared not to be a public authority within the meaning of Section 2(h) of the RTI Act by the Full Bench of the Commission in Subhash Chandra Agrawal & Ors. v. Attorney General of India; CIC/SM/C/2011/1542; CIC/SM/C/2011/1322 & CIC/SM/C/2012/609; dated 10-12-2012. 10. ....
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....f the enactment of this Act, at each sub-divisional level or other sub-district level as a Central Assistant Public Information Officer or a State Assistant Public Information Officer; as the case may be, to receive the applications for information or appeals under this Act for forwarding the same forthwith to the Central Public Information Officer or the State Public Information Officer or senior officer specified under sub-section (1) of section 19 or the Central Information Commission or the State Information Commission, as the case may be : Provided that where an application for information or appeal is given to a Central Assistant Public Information Officer or a State Assistant Public Information Officer, as the case may be, a perio....