Aerospace Diary

SUBHASH CHANDRA AGRAWAL (Guinness Record Holder and RTI Activist)* The opinions expressed are solely of the writer   The Supreme Court of India usually does not believe every assurance or document placed before it in case they lack practical aspects. It is beyond understanding how Supreme Court trusted the affidavit of the Italian Ambassador that Italy would honor the commitment given by its Ambassador in India for return of Italian marines accused of killing two Indian fishermen in Indian waters. This is at a time when diplomatic immunity available to Italian Ambassador cannot book him for filing a false affidavit. The fact that Italy accepts postal ballots was ignored for which the accused were allowed to visit their home-land. Are other foreign accused in India also granted such liberty to visit their homeland and that too twice with a gap of just few weeks to celebrate their festival and voting in elections? Law-officers of Indian government never pressed with for...

Posted by- Neelam Mathews Nov 26, 2012 We enclose a letter to the Chief Information Commissioner, New Delhi by an RTI activist even as his RTI on allegations by former IA CMD Sunil Arora against former aviation minister Praful Patel, are ignored. Sign of things to come? Sir,  Kindly refer to esteemed order dated 23.10.2012 in my petition-number CIC/SM/C/2012/001035 whereby your honour was kind enough to direct Appellate Authority at Union Cabinet Secretariat to give me an opportunity to be heard by him to ensure providing of desired information without any further loss of time. Learned Appellate Authority at Union Cabinet Secretariat Shri Subhash Chandra Garg summoned me for hearing on 20.11.2012 at 11 am, which was telephonically postponed for 6 pm on the same date. He was kind enough to allow query-numbers 1 to 4, 6, 8-12 and 14. I submitted my oral submissions towards query-numbers (5) and (7) with repeated requests to endorse these in the Appellate...