..., such other officer shall be treated as a Public Information Officer. 4. Anonymous and Pseudonymous Complaints. With Reference to Para 1 of this...letter, based on Anonymous and Pseudonymous complaints, in past two Court of Inquiries and Summery of Evidence was ordered against the undersigned. Under the RTI Act 2005, please...provide copy of complete information together with correspondence in respect of following: - (a) How many Anonymous and Pseudonymous complaints against...

...(Army) letter No A/56571/37/AG/DV-1(P) dated 01/08/2014 and letter of even number dated 22/12/2014 on handling of anonymous/pseudonymous Complaints are still applicable. 2. Confirm if...directions given by the Central Vigilance Commission Circulars on handling of Anonymous/Pseudonymous Complaints are also applicable to the Army. 3. Confirm if directions given by the DOPT...on handling of Anonymous/Pseudonymous Complaints are also applicable to the Army. 4. And other related information. Grounds for Second Appeal The CPIO...

...1. The complainant sought information on copies of anonymous/pseudonymous complaints received by the Vigilance Division and the copies of investigation reports of Vigilance team with...anonymous or pseudonymous complaints cannot be given if they are not found prima facie worthy to be further inquired because of frivolous nature or lack of basis. However, if any such complaint was found...

...contains an Army Order laying down the policy and guidelines for dealing with anonymous/pseudonymous and signed complaints. In terms of said Army Order, no action was required to be taken on anonymous.../pseudonymous complaints and the same were simply to be filed after perusal of the commander concerned. Another Army Order No. A56571.AG/DV-1(P) dated 4-3-2002, brought about some modification in the said...policy and guidelines by virtue of which all such cases where anonymous/pseudonymous complaints contain specific and verifiable allegations, the same could be investigated into and disposed of at the...

.... 3. The learned senior counsel for the petitioner submits that the Court of Inquiry has been ordered on Anonymous/Pseudonymous complaints, which, in terms of the instructions...applied, they state that first the Anonymous/Pseudonymous complaints should be investigated and analysed at an appropriate level by an inquiry undertaken by an independent officer/office. He submits that...the Government of India as far as anonymous/pseudonymous complaints are concerned, is pending adjudication before the learned Tribunal in OA No. 1111/2023 titled, 'Colonel...

...of taking action on anonymous and pseudonymous complaints against Government servants? If yes, certified copies of the said orders/instruction may kindly be provided. 6. How many.../pseudonymous complaints together with copies of inquiry reports and other related documents as sought under query 5 & 6. The CPIOs representative stated that he will provide the information requested...under queries 1 to 4 and also a copy of the circular regarding investigation of anonymous/pseudonymous complaints. As regard copies of complaints and action taken thereon he stated that the...

...related to the Appellant, rather filed by some unknown persons and these are all anonymous/pseudonymous complaints and per rules no records of such complaints are maintained. He said as the complaints...under section 8 (1) (j) of the RTI Act 2005. In response, the Appellant stated that the respondent authority had issued a charge sheet and punished a person on these anonymous/pseudonymous complaints going...anonymous/pseudonymous complaints, they do take preventive check and take action if necessary. Therefore he said there is no violation of Central Vigilance Commission rules. The Commission was in receipt of...

...and resulted in complaints from public including anonymous/pseudonymous complaints. Two such anonymous/pseudonymous complaints dated 18.02.1997 and 02.04.1997 were also...anonymous/pseudonymous complaints, the CIT Shri Vijay Khanna was issued a Charge Memorandum dated 20.10.2004 on seven articles of charge. Article-V of the Charge Memorandum issued to Shri Vijay Khanna...was apparently based on the said anonymous/pseudonymous complaints. The said Shri Vijay Khanna filed O.A. No. 2698/2004 and this Tribunal vide order dated 20.07.2005 quashed the Charge Memorandum. A WP...

...argued that there was no absolute bar in the CVC's instructions from not holding disciplinary proceedings on pseudonymous/innocuous complaints. In this behalf, the petitioners had relied upon CVC's..., issues by the Department of Personnel & Training letter No. 321/4/91-Advocate. III dt. 29.9.92, no action should be taken on anonymous and pseudonymous complaints and should be ignores and only filed...that the exception provided in this order has become a convenient loophole for blackmailing. The public servants who receive the anonymous/pseudonymous complaints, generally, generally follow the path...

...harassing the petitioner based on frivolous or pseudonymous complaints. For Petitioner : Mr.L.Infant Dinesh For Respondents For R1 to 5...pseudonymous complaints. 2. The learned Government Advocate(crl.side) appearing for respondents 1 to 5 submitted that on receipt of the said complaint, the Commissioner of...

...School and he bears a grudge against the Principal. He also submits that certain anonymous / pseudonymous complaints were received against the Principal which were looked into by the Southern Command but...November, 2010, the appellant had sought copies of the complaints purported to have been lodged against the Principal of Sainik School, Satara. This information was not disclosed to him either by the CPIO...

...Counsel of the applicant would vociferously submit that in terms of CVC's Instructions dated 25/11/14, no action could be taken on anonymous or pseudonymous complaints and such complaints should just be...Anonymous / Pseudonymous Complaints - reg. The Commission has been receiving references from Depart nts / Organisations seeking clarification on the action to be ta on anonymous/pseudonymous complaints which....111 dated 29.09.1992 that no action is required to be taken on anonymous/pseudonymous complaints in ~ieneral, provided the option to inquire into such complaints which contained verifiable details...

...complaint handling Policy of Directorate of Education, Delhi specifically in the matter of complaints with complainants identity and in the matter of anonymous or pseudonymous complaints, separately. Copy of...circular dated 09/02/2009 regarding Complaint Handling Committee and relevant circulars of CVC/GOI regarding action on anonymous/pseudonymous complaints, available, are attached. b...) Attested photocopy of the policies prescribed by Central Vigilance Commission and Directorate of Vigilance Delhi Govt. in the matter of genuine complaints and anonymous or pseudonymous complaints, separately...

...information on 04 points relating to the pseudonymous complaints made by the certain persons which were enquired into by Shri Nirmale, AGM (IR) and the matters related therewith. 2. Area...before the Commission. FCI is represented by officer named above. Shri Kulkarni submits a copy of letter dated 1.11.2008 addressed to the appellant wherein details of 08 such complaints have been mentioned...

...application dated 3.2.2011, the appellant had sought number of anonymous / pseudonymous complaints received by R.O. Nagpur relating to the mattes of Amravati District in 2010 and the disposal of such...complaints etc. Vide letter dated 23.2.2011, Assistant Director, Nagpur, had informed the appellant that no record was being maintained regarding the receipt of complaints and that certain administrative...of the investigation report regarding the complaint preferred by one Z. B. Kazi etc. 3. It is not clear whether any enquiry was conducted into the complaints purported to have been...

...anonymous nor pseudonymous complaints could have been entertained in respect of the selection process for either the entire process or a part thereof to be cancelled.3. No immediate order...

...appellant stated that he wants to know under what circumstances anonymous and pseudonymous complaints can be investigated and the procedure to be adopted by the investigating officer. The CPIO stated that...

...,(b) Pseudonymous complaints-where identity of the complainant is fictitious;(c) Signed complaints - where identity of the complainant is known.3. No...action will be taken on anonymous/pseudonymous complaints. These will be filed after perusal by the commanders concerned.”5. On the basis of the aforesaid paragraphs of the Army Order the...whatsoever is called for, naturally it will be filed. Otherwise there is no purpose or idea in providing that pseudonymous or anonymous complaints would be perused by the Commanders before they are filed...

...of anonymous / pseudonymous letters / complaints: ii. issue a writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ. order or direction, commanding...the respondents not to compel the petitioner to appear for interrogation/investigation, on receipt of anonymous / pseudonymous letters / complaints...Central Vigilance Commission (Exhibit P4) ordered that no action would be taken on anonymous pseudonymous complaints. However, the petitioner admit that the 2 and 3rd...

...pseudonyms complaint(s) against Ravi Sarangal by the CVC was contrary to its own Circulars on anonymous/pseudonymous complaints as reiterated from time to time by CVC itself...CVC's own circulars/ instructions on anonymous / pseudonymous complaints in my case. d. Whether Para no. 3(iii) of DoPT OM no.104/76/2011-AVD.1 dated 18-10-2013 (Annexure-4A...) was not followed in the case of pseudonymous complaints against Ravi Sarangal? If not reasons for the same as per records, be supplied. e. It is seen that pseudonymous/anonymous...