Right to Information Act,2005
A.Mohamed Thaheer
(Querist) 11 May 2009
This query is : Resolved
A Public Information Officer furnishes a wrong information on the information sought for by the applicant. The fact of the false information came to know only after a year and very recently now. In the mean time, the PIO who gave the false information is retired on superannuation.
What action could be taken for claiming penalty for having furnished the wrong information, and what section of the R.T.Act,2005, .
Otherwise, How responsibility could be fixed against the erred officer? because this is an important evidence required to be produced to the court in a criminal case.
M. PIRAVI PERUMAL
(Expert) 15 May 2009
If PIO furnishes wrong information appeal has to be made within a month to the first appellate authority. No action can be now taken against the one who has retired.
