As reported by PTI in zeenews.india.com on 16 August 2011:
http://zeenews.india.com/news/state-...ry_726472.html

CIC summons Delhi Govt Secretary


New Delhi: The Central Information Commission has summoned a Secretary of the Delhi Government for "consistently defying" orders of the Delhi High Court and transparency panel on making public a seniority list of people who were to be given alternative plots in return of their acquired property.

"The Commission summons Secretary, Land and Building Department, along with the Public Information Officer to appear before it...with their explanations for defying the orders of the Delhi High Court and the Commission consistently," Shailesh Gandhi said in his order.

Irked with defiance of its order of December 9, 2010, and Delhi High Court order of April 30, 2010, to place list of such people on its web site, Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi directed the Secretary, Land and Building, Delhi Government to come with proper explanation.

"The Commission will consider taking appropriate steps to ensure that officers implement all orders given with the seal of law...The Commission expects that the Secretary would at least come forth and show the Commission that its order has been implemented," he said.

The case related to an RTI applicant Sandeep Thakur, who sought to know from the Delhi Government "the seniority list of persons whose land has been acquired and also list of persons to whom recommendations for alternative plots has been made". But no such list was provided claiming that no such information exists.

The Commission pointed out a Delhi High Court order dated April 30, 2010, which directed the Government to "consider placing the seniority list on the website of the Land and Building Department" in order to keep the applicants for alternative plots inform of the current status of their applications.

"The website status should be constantly updated as and when there is a movement in applicants file. This exercise will be undertaken, preferably within eight weeks, in consultation with information technology department of GNCTD," the HC order said.

The Delhi Government had accepted before the Commission that the total number of people whose list have to be put-up is about 9,500 but said the decision to host these on web site had not reached any finality as of now.

"It is unthinkable that Delhi Government cannot put-up the seniority list for such a small number, and finds it more convenient to defy the orders of the Delhi High Court and this Commission...The Commission notes with distress that no effort appears to have been made to implement the order of the Delhi High Court and this Commission's order of December 9, 2010," Gandhi said.

In its order dated December 9, 2010, on the issue, the CIC has said that the HC order had been flouted and had directed the Secretary to place the seniority lists of persons whose land has been acquired in Delhi and also lists of persons to whom recommendations for alternative plots has been made as per the order of the Delhi High Court on the website before January 15, 2011, as mandated under section four of the RTI Act.

"This order has also not been implemented. It is an absurd state of affairs that the state acquires lands from citizens and does not deliver what it has promised in return. Citizens using RTI applications have been trying to desperately find out why some of them have got alternate lands and some have not," Gandhi said in his order.