http://taxguru.in/corporate-law/informer-should-be-given-information-under-rti-act-by-investigative-wing-of-director-general-income-tax-dgit.html Complete Tax Solution Sat, 26 May 2012 20:31:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://taxguru.in/corporate-law/informer-should-be-given-information-under-rti-act-by-investigative-wing-of-director-general-income-tax-dgit.html#comment-13571 N.Dey Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:45:13 +0000 http://www.taxguru.in/?p=20905#comment-13571 This is a very welcome and heartening development, though there grave doubts if the IT Deptt. will even care to ponder over it and if the CBDT will consider it fit to circulate this decision among the field officers in the country. The reason is that, like most government offices/departments and states like the West Bengal, UP, Bihar, Delhi, etc., none in IT deptt cares for the RTI. In fact, if a tax payer seeks to file any application under RTI, the CCIT/CIT/Addl. CIT/DCIT/ACIT/ITO, as the case may be, calls the perso to his/her chamber and threatens him and reminds him that he is yet to see the last of the deptt. and should therefore withdraw the application in his best interests. The CIC can call for the no. of applications received in ITOs since the enactment of the ACT. This will be revealing indeed. A similar exercise is urgently called for in the entire police, sales tax, central excise, customs and other enforcement agencies all over the country. Actually, in India, RTI is a mockery and anybody with fear of life can never think of filing any application under RTI, especially if he has not already applied for "anticipatory bail"! This is a very welcome and heartening development, though there grave doubts if the IT Deptt. will even care to ponder over it and if the CBDT will consider it fit to circulate this decision among the field officers in the country. The reason is that, like most government offices/departments and states like the West Bengal, UP, Bihar, Delhi, etc., none in IT deptt cares for the RTI. In fact, if a tax payer seeks to file any application under RTI, the CCIT/CIT/Addl. CIT/DCIT/ACIT/ITO, as the case may be, calls the perso to his/her chamber and threatens him and reminds him that he is yet to see the last of the deptt. and should therefore withdraw the application in his best interests.
The CIC can call for the no. of applications received in ITOs since the enactment of the ACT. This will be revealing indeed. A similar exercise is urgently called for in the entire police, sales tax, central excise, customs and other enforcement agencies all over the country.
Actually, in India, RTI is a mockery and anybody with fear of life can never think of filing any application under RTI, especially if he has not already applied for “anticipatory bail”!

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