RTI query transfer: CMO says North Corporation should pay compensation

The Delhi Chief Minister’s Office has told the Central Information Commission that the North Corporation should pay compensation to an RTI applicant whose query on pension for handicapped persons it had transferred to the civic body.

Extending a reprieve, the CIC agreed that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s office should have been heard before initiating penalty proceedings and asked it to explain why the plea of a person seeking to know the status of a handicapped person’s pension was transferred to the civic body. 

Information Commissioner Sridhar Acharyulu, who had passed scathing remarks on the working of RTI in the CMO, said: “It is stated in many judicial pronouncements that the Commission has no power of review.”