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Case No.22932/Enquiry/2009

Date of Enquiry: 18th January 2010 at VIRUDHUNAGAR

Present: Thiru.G.Ramakrishnan, I.A.S., (Retd.), State Information Commissioner.

Petitioner: Thiru. D. Koilraj, S/o Deva Asirvadham Nadar, First Street, , Taluk, District .

Public Authority: The Public Information Officer, O/o the Block Development Officer, Panchayat Union Office, Sathankulam, .

The Public Information Officer, Panchayat President, Village Panchayat Office, Mudalur, Sathankulam, Thoothukudi District. *** The petitioner was not present. The Public Authority was represented by the Panchayat President and the Panchayat Assistant of Mudalur Panchayat. The petitioner has asked for some information about the Mudalur Panchayat. For his application dated 9.1.2009, the petitioner has received some reply on 19.2.2009. Not satisfied with the information supplied, he has made an appeal to the Assistant Director of Panchayats, Thoothukudi on 23.2.2009. For this, the Assistant Director of Panchayats, Thoothukudi has sent a reply dated 2.9.2009 to the Commission. On the basis of the above reply, the case has been taken up for enquiry today. The petitioner has asked for some information in Form Nos. 17 & 18 for the last 5 years. The Panchayat President informed the Commission that the information relating to the year 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 could not be supplied to the petitioner as the same is not available in the Panchayat Office. The Panchayat President is therefore directed to file a sworn affidavit in a stamp paper to that effect and submit the same to this Commission within 15 days from the date of receipt of this order. The Panchayat Present is also directed to send a copy of the affidavit to the petitioner duly attested . The Assistant Director of Panchayats is directed to probe into the reasons as to why the previous Panchayat President has not handed over the records to the present incumbent and send a report to the Commission as early as possible. Though, the Public Information Officer of the Sathankulam Panchayat Union was summoned for the enquiry, he is found absent. The Public Information Officer is directed to explain within 15 days from the date of receipt of this order as to why penal action should not be taken against him for his absence.

STATE INFORMATION COMMISSION

Orders approved on 29th January 2010 Under orders of the Commission.

(S.MOHANA DHAS) ASSISTANT REGISTRAR To: Case No. 22932/Enquiry/2009

Thiru. D. Koilraj, S/o Deva Asirvadham Nadar, First Street, Mudalur, , Thoothukudi District .

Case No. 22932/Enquiry/2009

The Public Information Officer, O/o the Block Development Officer, Panchayat Union Office, Sathankulam, Thoothukudi District.

Case No. 22932/Enquiry/2009

The Public Information Officer, Panchayat President, Village Panchayat Office, Mudalur, Sathankulam, Thoothukudi District.