CIC Directs Hockey India To Disclose Purpose Of Fund Transfers To Foreign Accounts, Other Details

The Central Information Commission has directed Hockey India to disclose the goal powering money transferred by it to foreign accounts and hard cash withdrawals from its accounts, soon after the information and facts was withheld by the federation on the grounds of industrial self esteem. Activist Subhas Agrawal had submitted a twenty-point RTI software in October, 2019 in search of details about the operating of Hockey India, like signatories and their designations on lender accounts, fund transfers made to foreign accounts and hard cash withdrawals made from its accounts and their goal.

Hockey India refused information and facts on these details on the grounds of it currently being exempted from disclosure under Section eight(one)(d)(industrial self esteem clause) of the RTI Act.

Agrawal approached the CIC, the best adjudicating overall body under the RTI Act, hard Hockey India’s response. He said he had only sought the designation of the signatories and the name of the lender accounts and that the concern of confidentiality was not relevant below. Agrawal said that with regard to the information and facts connected to fund transfers to unique countries, Hockey India should have disclosed the information and facts in accordance with Section eight(two) of the RTI Act (bigger public interest) for the reason that any amount that has been transferred to a unique place is in bigger public interest.

With regard to hard cash withdrawals from Hockey India lender accounts, Agrawal said that soon after demonetisation, most of the transactions have been digitised, still, he has knowledge from reputable sources that hard cash withdrawals are currently being made by Hockey India.

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“As a result, he wishes to know the averred information and facts and accordingly requested the fee to immediate the respondent give total information and facts…” Information Commissioner Amita Pandove said.

In her get, Pandove directed Hockey India to give designations of the signatories on lender accounts only.She also directed the federation to “only” give goal of fund transfer to lender accounts in foreign countries and hard cash withdrawals by Hockey India.