CURATED BY – DHEERAJ KUMAR AHIRWAL | CITYCHIEFNEWS

Damoh, this incident has become a living example of how demanding information under the Right to Information Act can cost an applicant. Actually, the matter is not limited to just seeking information or providing information, the matter is much more complicated. Ujyar Singh Thakur, aged 35 years, a resident of Bali Gram Panchayat Bisnakhedi under Damoh district, who is a lawyer by profession, sends a letter to Damoh district on 29/12/2023 for information on a total of 4 points in his own Gram Panchayat, on which the people of the district A letter is sent to the Gram Panchayat related to Right to Information to provide information within the time limit and to keep the district informed, on which the Public Information Officer of the Gram Panchayat sends the information to the district through a letter after 15 days. It is said that under Section 6 of the Right to Information Act 2005, there is no right to provide information to the advocate in the relevant Act. Also, asking for information on more than one point in one application is not appropriate as per the rules, hence the information desired by the applicant is not available. Can be done.
Information about which, members of District Advocates Association Damoh arrived in large numbers to protest against the misbehavior with the applicant advocate. The advocate is asked by the district to get information in the Gram Panchayat, on which the applicant advocate goes to the Gram Panchayat and asks for information, on which the applicant and the Gram Panchayat An altercation begins between Employment Assistant Khemchand Asati, which escalates into a scuffle, the video of which is going viral on social media.

In which the Employment Assistant of Gram Panchayat is seen in a very agitated state abusing the applicant and trying to snatch the mobile.

In the entire matter, now another Sampurna advocates have decided to teach a lesson to the accused employment assistant and through a memorandum to the Collector/SP have demanded justice for the victim advocate and appropriate punitive action against the accused employment assistant after investigation.

Employment assistant Khemchand Asati says that this dispute is not about the right to information but about mutual electoral rivalry.
Now it has to be seen what will happen after the investigation, but this is a case of fake RTI for all those seeking information under the Right to Information Act. This case can be a big lesson for the activists whose family is being run by blackmailing.