के (cid:3)ीय सूचना आयोग Central Information Commission बाबा गंगनाथ माग(cid:18), मुिनरका

Baba Gangnath Marg, Munirka नई िद(cid:24)ी, New Delhi – 110067 File No: CIC/LICOI/A/2024/105485 Shaik Ameer Basha .….अपीलकता(cid:18)/Appellant VERSUS बनाम PIO, LIC of India CRM Department, Divisional Office, College Road, Kadapa – 516004 ….(cid:29)ितवादीगण /Respondent Date of Hearing : 02.07.2025 Date of Decision : 03.07.2025 INFORMATION COMMISSIONER : Vinod Kumar Tiwari Relevant facts emerging from appeal:

RTI application filed on : 19.09.2023 CPIO replied on : 13.10.2023 First appeal filed on : 10.11.2023 First Appellate Authority’s order : 13.12.2023 2nd Appeal/Complaint dated : 20.02.2024 Information sought:

1. The Appellant filed an (offline) RTI application dated 19.09.2023 seeking the following information:

“I Sri Shaik Ameer Basha, Resident of Akkayapalli, Kadapa belongs to Shaik Community Caste and belongs BC-E caste group. But the LIC agent of your office Sri Mahaboob Tara belongs Patan Muslim Caste. I came to know that he produced false caste certificate as Shaik and got jobs for him and his sons also. I request that the qualification certificates and his caste certificate may be send to the below said address. I have got his Patan caste certificates from his studying school.”

2. The CPIO furnished a reply to the Appellant on 13.10.2023 stating as under:

“As the information sought by you, is pertaining to personal information of third party, and there is no larger public interest.

Moreover the concerned party has not given consent for disclosure of his personal information.

Hence the required information is exempted from disclosure under section 8(1)

(J) of RTI Act, 2005.”

3. Being dissatisfied, the appellant filed a First Appeal dated 10.11.2023.

The FAA vide its order dated 13.12.2023, held as under.

“On perusing the RTI application, the CPIO's reply and First Appeal, the Appellant is informed that the CPIO had aptly responded to the queries of the Appellant. The Appellant is informed as under:

Sri Mahaboob Tara, is an LIC agent and he is not our Permanent Employee, we are not paying any salary to him. We are paying only commission on the basis of business procured by him. More over we are not having his caste certificate. (Please quote appropriate Supreme substantiating your response Query-wise)

Court/High Court/CIC decisions With this order, I dispose of the Appeal received on 17/11/2023 of Shri/Smt/Ms. S. Ameer Basha.”

4. Feeling aggrieved and dissatisfied, appellant approached the Commission with the instant Second Appeal.

Relevant Facts emerged during Hearing:

The following were present:-

Appellant: Absent.

Respondent: Ms. G. Chandrakala, CPIO-cum-Manager (CRM), attended the hearing through VC.

5. The Appellant did not participate in the hearing.

6. The Respondent submitted that the Appellant in the instant RTI Application is seeking personal information of third party which is exempted from disclosure under Section 8 (1) (j) of the RTI Act.

7. A written submission has been received from the Appellant vide letter dated 23.06.2025, stating as under:

“With reference to the above complaint I request the Mahaboob Tara is originally belongs to Muslim Patan caste. I came to know that he produced fake certificate as Shaik Muslim caste and got LIC agent job in Kadapa LIC Office. I have made representation to produce his certificates under RTI Act to the Manager, CRM & CPIO, LIC of India, Divisional Officer, Kadapa, but neither reply nor intimation received from them till date. Kindly take action against concerned officers and Mahaboob Tara.

As I am herewith enclosing the statement of encumbrance on property (EC) - and in that EC on property it was clearly mentioned as MAHABOOB TARA PATAN for your reference. As required by you the copy of my letters dated 19- 09-2023, 13-10-2023, 10-11-2023 and 13-12-2023 are herewith enclose for your kind perusal.”

8. A written submission has been received from Shri GKRV Ravi Kumar, FAA-cum-Senior Divisional Manager, vide