The State Information Commission (SIC) has fined a former official of the University of Kerala for withholding information sought by a retired professor under the Right to Information (RTI) Act.
State Information Commissioner K.L. Vivekanandan, in his order, imposed a fine of ₹25,000 on former joint registrar (administration) P. Raghavan, who was also the then State Public Information Officer (SPIO) of the university.
Invoking provisions of the RTI Act, the appellant, Immanuel Thomas, former head of department of Psychology, had sought details of the contentious Syndicate decision of June 2020 in which he was ‘removed from all academic activities related with the department and barred from entering the campus without permission of the university’.
