A local social activist accused Prime Minister’s office for not disclosing the facts related with Priyanka Gandhi’s husband -Robert Vadra,.
Dr Nutun Thakur, claimed that the Public Information Officer of the PMO denied providing Notesheet of the case related file to her, saying that the matter was sub judice.
She claimed to have wrote to the First Appellate Authority (FAO) asking that the RTI ct nowhere prohibits denial of sub judice information, if not ordered so by a competent court. According to social activist, the writ had been disposed of by the High Court on 7 March 2013 and is no longer sub judice, yet the FAO denied providing the information. She said that FAO cited an order of the Central Information Commission in Aamir Vijay Zaveri vs CPIO, PMO, where copy of an affidavit filed by the PMO in supreme Court was denied under the Supreme Court Rules. She accused that since the PMO does not want real facts to come in the open, hence the FAO wrongly took shelter of this case to deny providing even copy of the Note-sheet.
Meanwhile Nutal Thakur also filed a PIl on illegal Advertisements on Sex-power, obesity, Tantra etc. She claimed that Parliament has already passed the Drugs and magic remedies (Objectionable Advertisement) Act 1954 to save innocent people from fraudulent medical treatments. Even sixty years later, provisions of this Act are being violated openly. She claimed to check such malpractices she and her husband Amitabh Thakur, an IPS officer, filed a PIl in Allahabad High Court, lucknow Bench comprising of Justice Uma Nath Singh and Justice Dr Satish Chandra.
She claimed that as per section 3 of this Act, no advertisement about increasing sexual pleasure, women menstrual disorder, women conception etc will be published. Similarly, no advertisement regarding 54 diseases including Diabetes, Blindness, deafness, insanity, leucoderma, obesity etc can be published. As per section 5, all kinds of magic remedies like talisman, kavach, tantra etc is completely prohibited. Section 7 makes their violation a cognizable offence.
She said to have prayed in their Petition that the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, RNI and DAVP be directed to insure that no such illegal advertisement get published in any newspaper or TV and if it happens then all administrative and legal measures like cancellation of license and registration, stopping government advertisement, registering FIR etc are taken. On Saturday, Nutan Thakur also registered case with Gomati Nagar police station against over a dozen companies who were indulged in above unethical practices.