2014 (1) TMI 1548

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..... by the government to fill up those vacancies and about the staff strength and the vacancies relating to the staff. Besides, he also wanted to inspect the relevant files. The CPIO had provided some information and had allowed inspection of some files. The Appellant claimed that he had inspected only part of the files and had not completed the inspection due to constraints of time. He had desired to inspect the remaining files but the CPIO had intimated him that the relevant files were under submission to higher authorities and, therefore, the information could be provided only after the files were returned to the relevant section. Against this, the Appellant preferred an appeal in which he had requested for personal hearing. The Appellate A .....

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..... to the Appellant for inspection now on any appointed date. 6. We have carefully considered the facts of the case. There are two sets of information sought by the Appellant. The first one relates to the vacancy position of Information Commissioners in the CIC as on 3 October 2011. The second relates to sanctioned strength of staff in the CIC and the vacancy position with reference to some particular dates. Since both the sets of information are primarily statistical in nature, the CPIO should have clearly mentioned about the number of vacancies, if any, in respect of the Information Commissioners on the one hand and the staff on the other as on the reference dates mentioned by the Appellant. The files to be shown to him for inspection .....

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..... it may, in the present case, if there are files which have not been inspected due to whatever reason, those must be shown to the Appellant for inspection. We would, therefore, like to direct the CPIO to invite the Appellant on any mutually convenient date within 15 working days of receiving this order and to place before him the remaining files, strictly relevant to the information sought, for his inspection. Needless to say, after such inspection, if the Appellant would choose to get the photocopies of some documents, the same should be provided to him free of charge. 9. Now, about the delay on the part of the CPIO in allowing complete inspection of the relevant files. In the present case, it appears the relevant files were under su .....

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