When the
RTI Act make the
PIO or AA responsible, so long as the reply is not signed by the
PIO or AA as the case may be,
it is as good as not furnished the reply. The
PIO or AA can never argue that they have furnished the reply and naturally guilty of not providing the information.I don't think existance of any orders on the contrary.
By the by when the applicant get the information requested duly signed by a person who is competent to have access to that information and empowered to furnish it, I don't think there is any reason to crib even if he is not the
PIO or AA.. The problem arise only when the information is denied.