के (cid:574)ीय सूचना आयोग Central Information Commission बाबा गंगनाथ माग(cid:330), मुिनरका

Baba Gangnath Marg, Munirka नई िद(cid:671)ी, New Delhi – 110067 File No: CIC/DGSDM/A/2024/119018 S Ravi Selvan .….अपीलकता(cid:330)/Appellant VERSUS बनाम CPIO, Directorate General of Systems and Data Management, GST &

Central Excise, GST Bhawan, 26/1, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Chennai – 600034 ….(cid:366)ितवादीगण /Respondent Date of Hearing : 05.02.2026 Date of Decision : 20.02.2026 INFORMATION COMMISSIONER : Vinod Kumar Tiwari Relevant facts emerging from appeal:

RTI application filed on : 08.02.2024 CPIO replied on : 29.02.2024 First appeal filed on : 05.03.2024 First Appellate Authority’s order : 12.04.2024 2nd Appeal/Complaint dated : 11.06.2024 Information sought:

1. The Appellant filed an RTI application dated 08.02.2024 (offline) seeking the following information:

“SVLDR Scheme 2019, Application filed by Mr. Sundaram Sathish Kumar, Proprietor of M/s. Heaven Engineering, No.1/233, Perumal Koil Street, Ayyappanthangal, Porur, Chennai. ARN No. 1501200009288 dt.

15.1.2020.

Please provide the entire data available with respect to the above ARN No. in your office including the data available from the back end.

Please provide the application form with all its declarations.

Digital data with respect to the officers, actions taken by them as regarded in the system computer log may be provided.

All the above data by provided in the legible printed format.”

2. The CPIO furnished a point-wise reply to the Appellant on 29.02.2024 stating as under:

“Reply: (1) (i) As regards the request for the data with respect to the ARN No. 1501200009288 dt. 15.1.2020, the information sought for is the information filed by a specific person i.e. a declarant under SVLDRS Application, and is personal information supplied by a third party under Section 8 (1) (j) and Section 11 of the RTI Act, 2005. However, a Notice to third party under Section 11 of the RTI Act has been issued and reply awaited.

(ii) As regards the request for the data available from the back end, Information not available on the Officer's dashboard but got extracted by the technical team from the Backend Server in respect of "QUESTIONNAIRE_DESC" and "YES_NO_FLAG" columns of Form SVLDRS- 1 and is provided herewith and it is mentioned that this information is not displayed for the Officer in his dashboard.

Reply: (2) The information is covered in the reply provided in Point No:1.

Reply: (3) As regards the request for Digital data with respect to the officers, actions taken by them as regarded in the system computer log it is observed that the information sought for is the information related to specific person and is a personal information related to third party under Section 8(1)(j) and Section 11 of the RTI Act, 2005.”

3. Being dissatisfied, the Appellant filed a First Appeal dated 05.03.2024.

The FAA vide its order dated 12.04.2024, held as under:

“I have carefully gone through the RTI application, reply given by CPIO, and the appeal filed by the applicant. The Appellant, vide RTI Application dated 08.02.2024, had sought information pertaining to an application filed under SVLDRS Scheme by M/s Heaven Engineering (Proprietor: Sundaram Sathish Kumar) and the digital data with respect to the actions taken by officers from the system computer log. This clearly qualifies as a third-party information as per section 2(n) of the RTI Act as substantiated below Section 2 (n) of the RTI Act, defines "Third Party" which is reproduced below:

"Third party" means a person other than the citizen making a request for information and includes a public authority.”

6. The procedure for disclosing third party information is detailed in Government of India, Département of Personnel & Training, O.M.

No.8/21201O-lR dated 27.04.2010 which is reproduced as below “"Section 11 of the RTI Act provides the procedure of disclosure of 'third party information. According to it, if a Public Information Officer (PIO) intends to disclose an information