Srinagar, June 20:  The Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) of Jammu & Kashmir G R Sufi on Wednesday served notice to the former Public Information Officer of Financial Commissioner (Revenue) asking him to explain why action should not  be initiated against him for furnishing “irrelevant or incomplete, incorrect and misleading” information.
 Malik Muhammad Mushtaq had filed an application under Right to Information Act -2009, in the office of Financial Commissioner Revenue seeking information about the conversion of agriculture land for non-agriculture purpose at Namlabal/Drangabal, Pampore.
 The PIO of FC(R) passed an order on the application within stipulated time. However, the applicant filed the complaint in State Information Commission contending therein that the material, information provided is irrelevant or incomplete, incorrect and misleading.
 Disposing of the complaint, the CIC today directed the then PIO/ Administrative Officer FC(R)  Sanjay Gupta, to submit his explanation, if any, as to why penalty under Section 17 of the Act not be imposed on him .
 “His reply must reach this commission within 30 days from the receipt of this order. Naseer Ahmad Wani, Adm. Officer/PIO FC (R) is directed to serve the copy of the order to the then PIO under an intimation to the Commission,” the order passed by CIC reads.
 Observing that PIO has given incorrect, incomplete and wrong information to some of the queries asked by the complainant, the CIC said that reply to the query has not been in consonance with RTI rules.

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