Relevant facts emerging from Second Appeal:

Information sought:

1. The Appellant filed an RTI application on 12.07.2024 seeking the following information:

“CMRS had granted sanction/permission on 18.01.2013 to operate the Line at a peak operating speed of up to 50 kmph which could be raised gradually up to 80 kmph as prescribed, and permitted up to 120 kmph on 12.01.2024.

Please provide the following internal notes/notings, documents, communications, Test Reports, and any other incidental or relevant papers connected thereto (hereinafter individually and collectively referred to as "Documents"):

a) Every request/application sent by DMRC from time to time, to CMRS, for permission to operate the trains at any specified speed, along with all the supporting documents and any other correspondence relating thereto.

b) Clarifications/queries asked by CMRS in relation to the Documents and DMRC's response to each such clarification/ query asked.

c) List the types of inspection conducted by the CMRS or his officers, with details viz. name/ title/ scope of each inspection conducted by each officer, their supervisory officials, and details/results of such inspections.

d) Details of action taken by DMRC after each such inspection.

e) Test Reports, queries raised by CMRS with DMRC, in regard to such Tests, and DMRC's response relating to each and every Test till the time CMRS finally issued sanction for operating the trains at a particular speed, and thereafter at every point when CMRS permitted to operate the trains at a higher speed than that granted previously.

f) Reasons stated by CMRS for not allowing DMRC to operate the Line, or any portion thereof, at the scheduled peak speed of 120 kmph, during the Period.

g) Whether any particular portion of the Line was excluded from the general sanction to operate the Line at the peak speed of 100 kmph or more? If yes, the reasons for the same and the period of such exclusion.

h) Reasons stated by CMRS for permitting increase of speed from time to time and what all Documents were submitted by DMRC to CMRS in this connection.

i) Copy of CMRS' approvals to operate the Line at a particular speed, issued from time to time. Particulars of specific conditions imposed by CMRS, for compliance by DMRC from time to time and for each approval. Whether the conditions have been complied with by DMRC, how and when any subsequent verification was carried out by the office of CMRS to ascertain compliance, and to provide connected Documents to the applicant. If DMRC had not complied with the conditions imposed, the reasons for the same and what instructions were issued by CMRS to DMRC in connection therewith?

j) Copy of Documents exchanged between DMRC and CMRS, for any specified tests conducted by DMRC, as advised by CMRS, for permitting the peak operating speed of 120 kmph.

k) Copy of all Queries raised and Reports in respect of scheduled /routine/annual or other periodical inspections/checks carried out and correspondences related thereto.

l) Six months' Test Reports and CMRS reports, as prescribed in CMRS' sanctions/ permissions issued from time to time, for the monitoring to be carried out by DMRC pursuant to conditional permissions granted by CMRS.

m) Particulars of action taken by DMRC pursuant to the reports of the 2-member Departmental Enquiry Committee, constituted in July August 2012 by the Ministry of Urban Development (now called Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs) to enquire into the issue of defects in the civil structures of the Line. Please provide copies of all related and connected documents, along with related Board Resolutions passed in connection therewith, and the closure reports submitted by DMRC in connection therewith to the Ministry of Urban Development, Ministry of Railways, and any other Ministry of Govt