Delhi High Court seeks Centre’s response on Chinese incursions to RTI plea by Subramanian Swamy

The plea states that on November 10, 2022, Swamy filed an RTI application with the MHA seeking information on the number of times and dates on which the Chinese military made illegal incursions into the Indian territory across the mutually agreed upon Line of Actual Control (LAC) between the two countries since 1996.

Among other points, the RTI plea sought information on the extent of India’s sovereign land, which has been “ceded” to China due to creation of “no man’s land” across the mutually agreed upon LAC in 1996.

The RTI application was transferred between various departments which continued even after the expiry of the timeline for receiving the reply to the plea. Thereafter, he moved a first appeal on January 12, which was also transferred between various departments without effective resolution. He filed a second appeal in March with the Central Information Commission (CIC).

“Shortly after the second appeal was registered, the petitioner sent a letter to the CIC, requesting him to hear the second appeal expeditiously, vide letter dated March 27, 2023. The petitioner never received a response [to the letter]. The second appeal is pending with the respondent number 1 till date, without having been heard even once,” the plea states.