Tamil Nadu

Perambalur

CC/12/9

M.G.Balasubramanian - Complainant(s)

Versus

S.Muthusamy PIO, P.A. to District Collector - Opp.Party(s)

Tr.M.G.Balasubramanian, Party-in Persion

13 Feb 2015

ORDER

                               Date of filing: 1-3-2012

                                                                                                                  Date of Order: 20-2-2015

  DISTRICT CONSUMER DISPUTES REDRESSAL FORUM, PERAMBALUR,

                                                PRESENT:THIRU. P.G.RAJAGOPAL, B.A.B.L.,                 PRESIDENT

     THIRU.S.BALASUBRAMANIYAM, M.A.M.L.,    MEMBER            

                                                                                                CC/9/2012

FRIDAY, THE 20^th DAY OF FEBRUARY, 2015.

M. Balasubramaniyan,

D/o Gurusamy,

4/284.Malaveethi,

Thirumanur, 621715

Ariyalur -District.                                                                 Complainant

                                                       Versus

1.Thiru.Munusamy,

Public Information officer &,

Personal Assistant  to District Collector,

District Collectorate.

Ariyalur-District.                                                                            Opposite parties

 

2. Deputy Director

Health Services,

District Health Office,

Ariyalur.

 

            This complaint having come up for final hearing before us on Friday the 20^th Day of February 2015 in the presence of Thiru M.G.Balasubramaniyan, the Complainant and the Opposite Parties in Person this Forum passed the following

                                                ORDER

            The Opposite Parties are to file their written version As regards the maintainability of the Complaint the complainant has filed a Memo on 6.2.2015 stating that he has paid Rs.50/-towards service charges for getting information apart from the sum of Rs.10/-paid on the application and hence he is the ‘consumer’ as defined under section (2)(d) 0f the Consumer Protection Act 1986 and as the opposite party has failed to furnish the information, he has committed deficiency service and therefore the complaint is maintainable before this Forum.

          The Complainant has submitted the order of the Hon’ble National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission New Delhi, on Revision petition No.1975/2005 in

Dr.S.P.Thirumala Rao                                                                      Petitioner

                                                          Versus

Municipal commissioner,

Mysore City Municipal Corporation                                                 Respondent

and another judgment dated 5.11.1993, reported in 1994 SCC(1)243

Lucknow Development authority                                                     Petitioner

                                                          Versus

M,K,Guptha                                                                                                         Respondent

         

          But the said decisions have been overruled by the decisions of the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission  New Delhi, reported in 1(2014) CPJ 444 in

S.Durairaj,                                                                                         Petitioner

                                                          Versus

Divisional personal Officer,                                                              Respondent

Southern Railway,Madurai,

and another decision of the Hon’ble  National Commission reported in 2013(4) CPR 559in

Shri KaliRam                                                                                    Petitioner

                                                Versus

State Public Information Officer,                                                     

Cum Deputy Excise and Taxation Commissioner,                              Respondent

In which the Hon’ble National Commission has held that the Petitioner cannot be claimed to be Consumer under the Consumer Protection Act and there is remedy available for him to approach the appellate authority under section 19 of the Right to Information Act, 2005.

 

                                      Therefore the Complaint is dismissed as unsustainable before this Form.

 

                                                 Sd                                                                                            Sd

                                             MEMBER                                                                               PRESIDENT