TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
2014 (3) TMI 507
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....t petition. 3. Brief facts that would require notice are that the petitioner is working as Senior Executive Engineer with the Haryana Power Generation Corporation Limited, Panchkula. He submitted an application dated Nil to the Under Secretary, State Information Officer, Office of Chief Secretary, Government of Haryana for supply of information relating to seven IAS officers. The information sought was in the following terms : "Subject : Request for supply of information under Right to Information Act, 2005. Relating to the following IAS officers as directed by Deputy Secretary, Government of Haryana, Personnel Department, Civil Sectt., Chandigarh, vide memo No. 19/15/2009-1S(1), dated 1-12-2009. 1. &nbs....
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....G.P.F./P.P.F. Statement of officer Sr. No. 1 to 7 w.e.f. date of joining to till March 2009. 5. Please supply the copy of the L.T.C. Bills claimed by the officer 1 to 7 during their service tenure along with receipts bill of Hotel. 6. Please supply the PAN number of the officer in which the income-tax has been deposited by the D.D.O. Government of Haryana along with full detail of amount deposited month-wise, year-wise. Please supply the above information, immediately. I will deposit the further required fees as per law. Yours Sincerely, K.K. Sharma son of Shri B.K. Sharma, House No. 481, Sector-123, UE, Kurukshetra." 4. Apparently, the State Public Informa....
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....provisions of the RTI Act are aimed at ensuring access with regard to all actions of public officials and to check corruption in public life. It has been urged that the information under the provisions of RTI Act as regards the private respondents was only to ensure accountability and transparency in the conduct of Government officials. Challenge has been laid to the impugned orders by stating that the information which otherwise should have been willingly and voluntarily disclosed and put in the public domain, has been deliberately denied during the course of precise judicial proceedings envisaged under the Act. 6. The replies filed on behalf of the private respondents weave a common thread stating that the action of the petitioner s....
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....d cause unwarranted invasion of the privacy of the individual unless the Central Public Information Officer or the State Public Information Officer or the appellate authority, as the case may be, is satisfied that the larger public interest justifies the disclosure of such information;" 9. A perusal of the application submitted by the petitioner would reveal that the provisions of the Act have been invoked seeking information in the nature of the account number/name of the Bank in which the salary of the officers is being sent, copies of TA bills, copies of GPF/PPF statements of the officers with effect from the date of their joining till March, 2009, copies of LTC bills and supply of PAN number of the officers along with full details....
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....gned orders dated 20-5-2010, Annexure P12 and dated 9-9-2010, Annexure P14. 13. There is yet another aspect of the matter. The respondent-Commission has returned a finding that the petitioner had sought information not for the furtherance of any public interest or to bring about any transparency, but it was purely to settle personal scores with the private respondents. It has specifically been noticed in the impugned order dated 9-9-2010 that the petitioner held a personal grudge against some of the officials with regard to having been denied promotion while in service and in respect of other officers, he had a grievance that a land dispute pertaining to his family had not been handled properly. Accordingly, the Commission observed th....