RTI activists shout slogans at Telangana Information Commissioner

Hyderabad: State Information Commissioner P. Vijay Babu on Thursday faced slogan-shouting by RTI activists during the RTI Week celebrations at Ravindra Bharati in connection with the 11th anniversary of the RTI Act.

Soon after minister Etela Rajender, DGP Anurag Sharma, police commissioner M. Mahender Reddy, GHMC commissioner B. Janardhan Reddy and others left the dais, the RTI activists sitting in the audience raised slogans against Mr Vijay Babu and demanded that he be sacked. They said they were being questioned by Mr Babu while filing appeals which, they claimed, was against Section 6(2) of the Act.

Mr Babu told this newspaper that he did not act against rules while dealing with appeals. “I have imposed penalties on many government organisations. Whenever I doubt misuse of the Act, I raised some questions as per the Act. A group of such RTI activists raised slogans against me at the meeting,” he said.