India Right To Information

The CIC has slapped a fine on the National Commission for Women for not providing complete information pertaining to tours undertaken by its members after the Nithari serial killings to an RTI applicant. In its decision, the information watchdog, however, chose to remain silent on the delay of over five months by its own officials in registering the complaint of the applicant. Criticising the NCW, Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah said, "Institutions of this nature established to fulfill a basic need of a democratic society, can in their functioning provide merely an illusory service despite even the sincerest endeavours of those at helm.

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