[rti4empowerment] CBI exempt from RTI based on AG’s report

 

CBI exempt from RTI based on AG's report http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Daily/skins/TOINEW/navigator.asp?Daily=TOIBG&showST=true&login=default&pub=TOI Contradicted Suggestions Of Law Ministry, DoPT   TIMES NEWS NETWORK   Hyderabad: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was exempted from the purview of the Right to Information (RTI) Act on the sole recommendation of the attorney general of India Ghoolam Vahanvati. The RTI exemption for CBI that was announced by the centre on June 9 was in contradiction to suggestions made by the ministry of legal affairs and also the department of personnel and training (DoPT), the nodal agency for RTI implementation in the country.     A Hyderabad-based RTI activist, C J Karira, unearthed this on Wednesday after going through the files at the DoPT office in North Block, New Delhi, that led to CBI getting exemption from RTI. Karira was allowed to inspect the documents after he filed an RTI application seeking permission for the same. His contention was that a "transparent functioning'' of an agency like CBI was crucial given that it was probing the country's biggest scams.     The activist took 50 minutes to go through the documents and was also allowed to make copies of pages that he felt were important. During this time Karira found documents revealing DoPT's denial to give CBI exemption from RTI on the grounds that it did not deal either with 'intelligence' or 'security' issues, the only two conditions that can make any government department RTI-proof.     The response of ministry of legal affairs on the matter carried the suggestion that while the agency could be exempted from RTI, it should be answerable to queries on matters of administration, personnel, budget etc, said Karira, quoting from the files that he scanned on Wednesday.    However, the only document at DoPT that strongly recommended CBI's exemption from RTI was an 11-page report by the attorney general.

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