India, Aug. 1 -- RTI Act should not be used as a tool of oppression or hold the government to ransom, says an order of the Information Commission

MUMBAI: Calling them a burden on the government administration and a misuse of the law, the Sambhaji Nagar bench of the Information Commission has dismissed 7,651 appeals filed by 18 Right To Information (RTI) activists over the last 15 months.

In a recent order, the commission also called the appeals filed by one applicant in particular a misuse of the RTI Act. In doing so, the order stated, the applicant was holding government offices to ransom, potentially bringing work in these offices to a standstill.

In its order passed on July 14 and uploaded on the commission's portal this week, Praka...