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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | CIC raps CBI for not giving info on Ambanis

CIC raps CBI for not giving info on Ambanis

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published Published on Jun 27, 2011   modified Modified on Jun 27, 2011

-The Economic Times

 

The Central Information Commission (CIC) has summoned CBI officials for failure to give reasons on why the Ambani brothers were not chargesheeted in the call re-routing case.

The CBI had last year filed a chargesheet against five Reliance Industries' executives in a case related to passing off of international calls as local calls and causing revenue loss to the government.

Information commissioner Shailesh Gandhi has asked the CBI public information officer to explain why penalty should not be imposed for failing to comply with the commission's order and providing information on the issue.

Delhi resident P C Srivastava had asked CBI for details related to the call re-routing case including the timeline of the investigation, why the names of Mukesh and Anil Ambani were not included in the chargesheet and legal opinion on the basis of which the brothers' names were excluded.

Giving the order, Gandhi said, "From the facts before the commission, it appears that you have failed to comply with the order of the commission and not provided the requisite information within the time limit specified. The denial on your part in providing information amounts to willful disobedience of the commission's order and also raises a reasonable doubt that the denial may be mala fide."

CBI had earlier rejected the RTI application saying the information sought was confidential and disclosure would impede investigation. CBI public information officer argued before the commission, "CBI had decided to prosecute certain directors and the reasons for not prosecuting Mukesh Ambani and Anil Ambani were on record. However, disclosing such information would provide clues to other persons accused in the case by which they would be able to argue why they should not be charged."

While ordering for disclosure, Gandhi said the PIO had failed to produce any cogent evidence before the commission on the basis of which the PIO had established that disclosure of information will impede the prosecution of offenders. He added, "Moreover, this commission is unable to understand how lack of evidence against a person can be used by another person against whom evidence has in fact been found leading to filing of chargesheet against the latter. On this basis, the commission rejects the contention of the PIO that the information sought was exempted under section 8(1)(h) of the RTI Act. The PIO has not been able to justify how disclosing the information would impede the process of prosecution of offenders."

The agency had chargesheeted Manoj Modi, Akhil Gupta, Shankar Adawal, Pankaj Panwar, K R Raju and Bhagwan Das Khurana of Reliance Infocomm Ltd in the case. Reliance Infocomm also paid Rs 150 crore towards penalty imposed by telecom tribunal TDSAT.

The Economic Times, 27 June, 2011, http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/telecom/cic-raps-cbi-for-not-giving-info-on-ambanis/articleshow/9009439.cms


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