New Delhi: The Central Information Commission (CIC) has asked Alliance Air to make public the name of the person who asked the airline for a chartered flight, prompting them to cancel a scheduled Delhi-Coimbatore flight in April 2010.
Rejecting Alliance Air's contention that disclosure was exempted as it was held in commercial confidence, information commissioner Sushma Singh said in the interest of transparency and accountability the information must be given within 10 days.
The controversial requisition was allegedly made by then civil aviation minister Praful Patel's daughter Poorna Patel. A Delhi-Coimbatore Air India flight, IC 7603, was aborted less than 12 hours before its departure to allow the aircraft to be deployed as a chartered flight for ferrying IPL's hospitality manager Poorna Patel and some IPL players from Chandigarh to Chennai on April 20.
RTI applicant S C Agrawal argued that no commercial confidence was involved.
27/02/11 Times of India
0 comments:
Post a Comment