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/CBDTD/A/2023/630305/CCITN Manish Amarchand Mehta .….अपीलकता(cid:18)/Appellant VERSUS बनाम PIO, Asst. Director of Income-Tax (Inv) Hq, Income Tax Dept.

RTTC Building, Seminary Hills, Nagpur – 440006 ….(cid:29)ितवादीगण /Respondent Date of Hearing : 09.04.2025 Date of Decision : 22.04.2025 INFORMATION COMMISSIONER : Vinod Kumar Tiwari Relevant facts emerging from appeal:

RTI application filed on : 15.12.2022 CPIO replied on : 02.01.2023 First appeal filed on : 15.02.2023 First Appellate Authority’s order : 23.03.2023 2nd Appeal/Complaint dated : 20.06.2023 Information sought:

The Appellant filed an RTI application (offline) dated 15.12.2022 seeking the following information:

“That I have given a statement in the month of October /November 2012 related to the income tax of Purti Group of Companies the Income tax Department Investigation Wing before the income tax officer Riddhi Dasani Madam. I would like to state here that the copy of my statement was not provided to me at that time. Therefore kindly supply the copy of my statem