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| Cop files RTI seeking information, PHQ takes him to task | | Is police above law? | | Sumit Sharma
JAMMU, Aug 30: Despite Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's repeated pronouncements, Jammu and Kashmir police (JKP) not only penalized a cop seeking information under right to information (RTI) act but asked him to explain his conduct.
The cop was pushed to the wall; accused of violating discipline which every uniformed individual has to follow. Alarmed at the information sought by the cop, officials of Police headquarter (PHQ) brazenly breached RTI rules. Instead of providing information to the applicant, asked him to appear in person before them and explain his conduct.
The complainant Sewa Ram (name changed) is guilty of seeking information from the state home department. He had asked home department to give him information with regard to appointment of women under various SROs in the police department. The RTI crusader cop had asked the home department to provide him a copy of SRO under which female candidates were being appointed in the police department.
The cop had even paid the fee. Home Department accepted the RTI query and transferred the same to the police headquarters vide letter no-Home/RTI/29/2011/9853. However, applicant was shocked when instead of providing him information under RTI, a police team of Pucca Danga police station knocked at his door. What followed was not only horrendous but also breach of an individual's fundamental rights.
A police constable asked the cop about his rank, regiment number and place of posting. Not only this, sources said that the cop was forced to attend PHQ office on all the working days including Sunday. SHO Pucca Danga was directed to carry out this exercise vide order No Legal/JKRTIACT/11/2441 issued from the office of District Police Headquarters Jammu. The cop has lost the hope and is now, worried about saving his job. He is cursing the day when he filed the RTI application.
RTI activist Raman Sharma described the incident as breach of section 6(2) of J&K RTI Act 2009 and said that it is the responsibility of DGP Jammu and Kashmir Police and Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) to protect the complainant and to divulge him information of his question so that the spirit of RTI could remain alive. Pertinent to mention here already commission recently served notices advising PIO of Legislative Council to adhere to the rules and laws. |
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