2009 (6) TMI 30

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....- The appellant has filed this appeal dated 2-6-09 which has been received in this Office by Fax on 4-6-09 and by post on 5-6-09. He has stated that the appeal may be decided on merits as he does not require personal hearing. As such, the appeal is decided on the basis of records available in this Office and taking into account the submissions made by PIO and Assistant Registrar. 2. The appellant....

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.... the demand of additional cost of Rs. 6,83,340/-. 4. The appellant has stated in his appeal that the demand of the additional cost is illegal, incorrect, arbitrary and violatative of the provisions of RTI Act and Rules thereof. He has also stated that the required information relates to compliance of the statutory requirement under the Customs and Excise Laws and hence, such information should ha....

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....ing fee is leviable. The cited decisions are as follows (i) CIC/S/A/2009/00099 dated 27-3-09 (ii) CIC/PB/A/2006/00063 dated 19-6-06 (iii) 2646/IC (A)/2008 dated 20-6-08 (iv) 1974/IC (A)/2008 dated 20-2-08 (v) 246/IC (A)/2006 dated 6-9-06 5. I have heard the PIO and Assistant Registrar. it is ascertained that the information required by the appellant was not readily available with the Registr....

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....most transparency in its functioning and I find that the PIO has promptly collected and supplied the required information within the statutorily stipulated time. I also gather from the PIO that in the process of collecting the required information, several cases have come to light where the cases were not listed earlier for compliance after passing the stay order and it has now been possible to li....