Bhubaneshwar, Oct. 10 -- The Orissa High Court has pulled up the State Information Commission for quashing a RTI appeal, saying that "the ground on which the RTI proceeding has been dropped being the outcome of non-application of mind is liable to be set aside".
"The Commission allowed its finding to be entrapped in officialdom and red tapism, which are illegitimate tools to fall back, to deny response to an application under the RTI Act, 2005 and thereby render the provisions nugatory", the Single Bench judge Justice V. Narasingh ordered in the ruling, slamming the quasi-judicial body.
The petitioner Hemanta Nayak had moved the Court after the public information officers in Bhadrak district did not provide him the reply on an encroached ...