CIC Orders CRCS to Report on Untraceable Sahara Depositor Letters

The Central Information Commission has ordered the Central Registrar of Cooperative Societies to submit a report within four weeks concerning the status of letters from a Sahara depositor. The CIC dismissed the CRCS's claim that the letters were untraceable due to office relocation.

The Central Information Commission (CIC) has dismissed the explanation by the Central Registrar of Cooperative Societies (CRCS) that letters sent by a Sahara depositor were 'not traceable' due to office relocation.

The CIC instructed the CRCS to submit a status report on these letters within four weeks, following an RTI file by retired IFS officer Kewal Krishan Gupta, who sought updates on Sahara cooperative society deposit refunds.

The CRCS claimed the correspondence was untraceable after moving to the World Trade Centre, New Delhi, but this explanation was not accepted by Information Commissioner Sanjeev Kumar Jindal.

(With inputs from agencies.)