New Delhi: RTI petitioner Subhash Chandra Agrawal is upset over the Prime Minister's Office making an U-turn on the issue of ministers declaring their assets.
"On December 17, 2008, the PMO took an U-turn and sent me a letter that information sought was protected under 81E and J relating to fiduciary and personal information of RTI Act and it cannot be disclosed, In another petition the Union Home Ministry had said that Union Ministers are not government servants," said Agrawal.
Agrawal was reacting to PMO's decision that information in this regard be kept exempted from the Right to Information Act.
On May 19, 2008, the PMO had reportedly provided details of assets of ministers to the Cabinet Secretariat, to facilitate answering of RTI applications.
But in a letter dated December 17, the PMO refused to divulge details sought by Agrawal.
It termed the information as exempt under the Section 8 of the RTI Act.
Agrawal had filed an RTI application last year seeking details of assets of Union Ministers and their relatives for the last two years.
The office sought exemption under clauses 8(1)(e) and 8(1)(j) which relate to immunity granted to "documents fiduciary relationship" and "Cabinet Documents" under the RTI Act, 2005 respectively.
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