NEW DELHI: The Central Information Commission on Saturday severely indicted IIT-Kharagpur, and its former public information officer T K Ghosal, for giving false information under the RTI Act about the Joint Entrance Examination-2006.
"It appears to the Commission that false information has been given knowingly by the then PIO T K Ghosal," CIC said. It also said, "The commission is surprised, pained and horrified at this complete falsehood to which the PIO of one of India's leading education institutes has resorted to." Ghosal is now the officiating registrar.
CIC has asked the chairman of the board of governors of IIT-Kharagpur to inquire into the allegations made by appellant Rajeev Kumar, a professor of computer science in the same institute. CIC has also asked the additional superintendent of police, Kharagpur, to provide security to Kumar after making an assessment of the threats to him. "If any physical harm comes to Rajeev Kumar the police will be held responsible for not having performed their duty," the order said.
The commission took strong note of the fact that instead of appearing personally, Ghosal asked law firm Fox Mandal & Associates to represent it in this case. CIC said three people appearing on behalf of Ghosal A Patra, public information officer, IIT-Kharagpur, Brigadier A K Joshi and Rajan K Sarkar, law officer "are clueless as to why false information has been provided... Public money and interest could have been better served if Ghosal, who is officiating registrar, had appeared before the commission in this matter."
CIC has issued show-cause notice to Ghosal and asked him to be present in the commission on March 17 with a written submission as to why penalty should not be imposed on him and disciplinary action should not be recommended.
"It appears to the Commission that false information has been given knowingly by the then PIO T K Ghosal," CIC said. It also said, "The commission is surprised, pained and horrified at this complete falsehood to which the PIO of one of India's leading education institutes has resorted to." Ghosal is now the officiating registrar.
CIC has asked the chairman of the board of governors of IIT-Kharagpur to inquire into the allegations made by appellant Rajeev Kumar, a professor of computer science in the same institute. CIC has also asked the additional superintendent of police, Kharagpur, to provide security to Kumar after making an assessment of the threats to him. "If any physical harm comes to Rajeev Kumar the police will be held responsible for not having performed their duty," the order said.
The commission took strong note of the fact that instead of appearing personally, Ghosal asked law firm Fox Mandal & Associates to represent it in this case. CIC said three people appearing on behalf of Ghosal A Patra, public information officer, IIT-Kharagpur, Brigadier A K Joshi and Rajan K Sarkar, law officer "are clueless as to why false information has been provided... Public money and interest could have been better served if Ghosal, who is officiating registrar, had appeared before the commission in this matter."
CIC has issued show-cause notice to Ghosal and asked him to be present in the commission on March 17 with a written submission as to why penalty should not be imposed on him and disciplinary action should not be recommended.
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