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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | RTI plea returns undelivered by J Venkatesan

RTI plea returns undelivered by J Venkatesan

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published Published on Jun 18, 2010   modified Modified on Jun 18, 2010

The office of the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister has no Public Information Officer (PIO) to receive applications filed under the Right to Information Act.

An RTI application seeking details on who assisted (the then chief of Union Carbide) Warren Anderson, the main accused in the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster, to leave the country with full VVIP protocol, was returned ‘undelivered' to activist Subash Chandra Agrawal stating that “there was no post of PIO in CM's office, hence returned.”

Mr. Agrawal has approached the Central Information Commission asserting that the return of the application was refusal to furnish information, for which proceedings under Section 18 of the RTI Act should be initiated against the persons concerned. He wanted a direction to the Chief Minister's Office to respond to the queries contained in the June 9 application.

It has sought complete information regarding Mr. Anderson's exit. Many senior officers including the then Chief Secretary, Collector, pilots of plane and others had openly blamed before TV cameras that Mr. Anderson was assisted to leave, at the instance of the then Chief Minister Arjun Singh.

He wanted to know whether it was true that Mr. Singh helped Mr. Anderson leave Bhopal on December 7, 1984. “If yes, action taken against Mr. Arjun Singh by the present Madhya Pradesh government; Was there any proposal to arrest Mr. Arjun Singh now in view of his role in making Mr. Warren Anderson run away from the country?; If yes, please provide file notings/correspondence/documents relating to any such proposal; Action taken against others guilty of letting Mr. Warren Anderson run away from Bhopal; If the answer is ‘no' to the first question, action taken against those making media statements including the then Collector Shri Moti Singh, pilots of plane [Shri R.S. Sodhi and Shri Sayed Hasan Ali] flown from Bhopal to New Delhi on December 7, 1984 and others for false presentation in media, if it is so; Any other related information and file notings on movement of this RTI petition.”


The Hindu, 19 June, 2010, http://www.hindu.com/2010/06/19/stories/2010061956491400.htm


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