Bhubaneshwar, Jan. 20 -- The Orissa High Court has set aside the order of the Odisha State Information Commission, which debarred an RTI applicant from filing new queries for one year, citing that the impugned order of the state commission is not justifiable.

as u"applications filed by him in the past were repetitive in nature and burdensome, placing unnecessary stress on public resources."The Odisha State Information Commission had debarred Chittaranjan Sethi from filing any further applications for a period of one year with immediate effect, however, allowing 12 applications in the maximum under the RTI Act in a calendar year, noting that "the applications filed by him in the past were repetitive in nature and burdensome, placing unneces...