HC notice to state home dept, Nagpur Police on plea by man summoned after RTI on RSS https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/hc-notice-to-state-home-dept-nagpur-police-on-plea-by-man-summoned-after-rti-on-rss-8380858/ Omkar Gokhale January 14, 2023 The bench was hearing the plea moved by Lalan Kishor Singh seeking to quash the notice issued to him on December 26, 2021 by the assistant police inspector (API), Traffic.RTI He ..was summoned by the police to record his statement after he filed a query under the Right to Information (RTI) Act related to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)...
Claiming that he was a daily wager, Singh said in his plea, “If security is being provided to NGO from the revenue collected from the public… it is the constitutional right of every citizen to seek information and raise question.” He added that the Nagpur Police was time and again pressurising him to appear before it, affecting his daily work...The plea added that the API (Traffic) is not a competent authority to hold any inquiry against Singh. It further said that initiating inquiry against Singh is unlawful and was being done to curb his fundamental rights.