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09/26/13 GMT 12:12:48 AM: -
 below is the copy of a request for information I had sent to a govt agency
APPLICATION FOR INFORMATION
under right to information act 2005


To
the central public information officer / director
intelligence bureau (IB)
Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India
North Block, New Delhi-110 001


1. name of the applicant : cheriyath jyothi

2. address : mithilam, povankonam, chemapzhanthi P.O.,
thiruvananthapuram – 695587.

3. particulars of information required :

a. I would want to know whether there are any personnel belonging to your bureau, as your regular employees or their paid informers, put on duty specifically on me, whatever be the pretext for doing so.
b. In case your answer is in the affirmative I would want detailed information like:
i) at whose behest is this activity being carried out ?
if this person happens to be a private citizen, is that person being made to pay for the “services” rendered ?
and if so, the exact amounts paid that way.
ii) What are the liberties these “security” personnel are allowed in my personal domain? For example does their duties include intercepting, examining and censoring communications, postal as well as electronic, to and fro; breaking in to my house in my absence and searching my things in the name of security?
iii) What are the additional perks that personnel of your establishment put on the above sort of duties eligible for ? Like say for example free meals, purchases made while trailing the party reimbursed, free accommodation!

4. year to which information pertains: from may 1995 till date.

5. other relevant reference if any :
a. I have plain clothes men trailing and harassing me and these members of the spy networks of the government are trampling on my life and liberties. I have no idea as to their whereabouts and am keen on knowing their origins. It could be possible that these are renegade members of your establishment and hence this application.
your attention is invited to the fact that the immunity granted to your organization under section 24. ( 1 ) of the RTI 2005 is not relevant in the context of my above request as the matter pertains to violations of my basic human rights by members of the security agencies of the government.
b. My name is usually written in full as cheriyath jyothi but it could be possible that your records show my name as c. jyothi or even jyothi c.
c. I have been living in various rented houses in and around thiruvananthpurm city since may 1995.
6. application fee
a. fee paid : Rs. 10/- ( rupees ten only)
b. mode of payment : Indian postal order


place : Thiruvananthapuram - 695587

date : 19 January 2010.



( c. jyothi )    

                               here is a photograph of the response I got.



I made an appeal; I cannot find a copy but here is a photograph of the letter – the colour has been inverted for obvious reasons.


And here is the response to the appeal.




birds of a different feather
almost Identical request were sent to other agencies as well and most of them wrote back. Here is another set up that did not want to reply
at first the first letter sent was returned undelivered that is in spite of the fact that the address I had given is the one on the website of the Kerala police - and this set up is supposed to be a part of the Kerala police!
Now see what happened when ultimately they did not find anyway of refusing to accept the letter. 

                         This reply is in complete violation of the act.
                 don't  you think they have got something to hide ?
One thing is clear:
dhal mem kuch nahim
INKA  POORA DHAL  KALA HAI


jy13writApplicationDraft00

        20130912
THE PERSON
THE PETITIONER a citizen of India by birth and domicile, was born and bred in a village in the Malabar coast of peninsular India in a lower middle class family.
He had his early EDUCATION in the nearby schools and colleges. He matriculated from the Madras University in the first class as the best outgoing student of Mahe de La Bourdonnais college, Mahe, South India, his Alma Mater. He has a first class bachelor's degree in science, the only first class in life sciences from his college in his batch and was selected for studying medicine in government medical colleges in Kerala based on the marks he had scored in the above examination. All his ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS were kind courtesy his teachers in the government schools and colleges where he studied; he never had any private tuition.
The petitioner is an unbeliever and has no god nor religious faith. He is not a member of any organization, political, religious or otherwise. He does not believe in preaching and is a very private person who strictly minds his own business.
He has been living well within his means and in spite of his poor circumstances has not incurredi any debt. The petitioner was never married and has all through been living alone. A self-contained person, he was managing every thing, including the household chores, on his own without ever bothering anyone else for anything.
An old student of Medical College, Trivandrum, the petitioner has an M.B.,B.S., degree from the Kerala University and registration with the Travancore - Cochin medical council.
He had a ten year stintii in the Indian Army as a short service commissioned officer in the Army Medical Corps. His first five years in the rank of a Captain was followed by another five years in the rank of Major. Seven out of the ten years in the Indian Army was in field areas and of those seven years he was in high altitude for more than one year. During the remaining three years he was in charge of a fifteen bed section hospital of the indian army in a remote village in central India as the sole officer, medical or otherwise.
Upon release from the army after successful completion of the contractual period the petitioner joined duty as Lecturer in the Dept. of Physiology of Govt. T.D.Medical College, Alleppey in August 1993; he had been given an appointment as Lecturer in Physiology in the Medical Education Service of the Government of Kerala in 1983 after being duly selected for the above post by the Kerala Public Service Commission and had availed joining time till his release from the army.
The petitioner, a noviceiii at teaching, spent an enjoyable and most rewarding period of two years in the Govt. T. D. Medical College, Alleppey, teaching medical Physiology, to the M.B.,B.S., degree students.
Edgediv on by his apparent success as a teacher and with a view of doing better justice to his students, the petitioner took the entrance examination for post graduate courses in the medical colleges in Kerala, and based on his performance in the above examination he managed to get selection for the M.D., degree course in Physiology. The petitioner moved to govt. medical college Trivandrum as post graduate student cum lecturer in 1995.
As a trainee lecturer in the Department of Physiology of medical college Trivandrum for doing his MD, the petitioner had SOME REMARKABLE SUCCESSES TO BEGIN WITH. In his confidential report for the year 1995 the head of the department of physiology commended the petitioner for his exemplary conduct and punctuality in all matters, praised his extraordinary proficiency in understanding new and difficult matters, his resourcefulness and originality in giving suggestions and pursuing them constructively and the petitioner's ability to get systematically to the root of the problems and for his consistently sound and well balanced judgment. Above all, the Head of the Department specifically mentioned the petitioner's keen interest in improving the standard of the practical classes. It was a flattering report.
Thus the petitioner was on course for obtaining his MD degree with the Head of the Department of Physiology due to be his examiner in a couple of years' time; an MD in physiology would have guaranteed him immediate promotion as assistant professor and put him in line for further promotions. However this was not to be.
In the vicious atmosphere in medical college Trivandrum, within no time, everything turned topsy-turvy; the petitioner could never appear for the MD examination and he was still a lecturer when he retired from Kerala Government service on superannuation as mandatory at the age of 55 years on April 30, 2005.
Being homeless, the petitioner, ever since his release from the army in 1992, has been living in rented houses. In 1995 he shifted to Thiruvananthapuram and from then on has been living in and around Trivandrum city, except for a one year stay in Ernakulam dt. during 2010 - 11 in a futile attempt to build a house of his own there.

THE PRESENT
AT PRESENT the petitioner, out of extreme compulsions, is living in a shack,v building No. V/168 of Karakulam Panchayath, a 4 x 5 sq. meter single storey structure with four inch thick brick walls and asbestos/GI sheet roofing in Thiruvananthapuram district of Kerala state.
This shack stands on a 3.88 ares plot of land purchased by the petitioner in 2011 out of his life time savings with the intention of constructing a house of his own and making it his permanent abode. The construction work started in right earnest in august 2011 for a single storey 80 sq. meter house using the low cost building techniques of the famous architect Dr. Lauri Baker at a total estimated cost of 9 lakhs just adjacent to the shack. However, in June 2012 things came to a grindingvi halt, with the builders engaged by the petitioner refusing to proceed further after finishing the first stage of the project, the basement part. No reason whatsoever was given for this sudden change of mind; they simply were “no more interested”.
The petitioner who had moved into the shack in June 2011 in the hope that it is going to be for a few months till the house proper is constructed finds himself literallyvii trapped.
The petitioner's only source of income since retirement from government service is his monthly pension and in order to maintain a minimum standard of living the petitioner perforce has to supplement it by taking up a job. Under normal circumstances this should not have been a problem in his case with his educational qualifications and experience, especially so with the mushrooming of private medical colleges in Kerala in the recent past and the resulting huge demand for teachers in medical physiology.
In spite of the above, the petitioner is being forced to spend his life after retirement in dire poverty, in the seclusion of his shack doing the work usually allotted to a housemaid and has to eke out a miserable existence on his meager monthly pension. It is all due to the petitioner's
PECULIAR CIRCUMSTANCES

to be continued


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