Mumbai: What is the State Information Commission (SIC) eating? Prayers on samosas in public offices appear to be the pleas. SIC told the Bombay High Court on Wednesday that he had received an RTI application to know how many samosas are served in a day.The misuse of the RTI Act also attracted Flack from HC. It has been stated that laws are made with a beneficial purpose, but “people use them to search for sons of government … to find government employees”. “It’s a contradiction,” said CJ Alok Arade and a bench of Justice Sandeep Marne.It was making complaints within 45 days within 45 days within 45 days within 45 days for the disposal of SIC by listening to SIC by listening to a PIL by former Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) Shailesh Gandhi and five RTI workers. SIC said the delay was due to vacancies. State advocate Jyoti Chavan said that there are seven sanctioned posts of State Information Commissioners and a CIC. Four vacancies including CIC were filled in April. The petitioners demanded three additional posts of State Information Commissioners citing about 1 lakh pending appeals and complaints. Chavan said that the state will decide on this.When HC asked the petitioners’ counsel Sunil Ahya if “the complaints redress”, he said that the CIC was directed to file a report by HC in December 2023 at the disposal of the second appeal.The CJ typically commented about PIL petitioners “to find a mistake with the government’s action”. “They always come with a negative attitude and are never satisfied,” he said. The judges said that they could not expand the scope of PIL and said that RTI was misused.The judges said that there is no time limit for the second appeal in the RTI Act. He stating that he says “Asha and Faith” SIC, he will try to decide the second appeal/complaints as fast as possible “.
