👁️🗨️ When Power Evades Accountability: A Citizen’s Struggle
to Expose the Myth of Democratic Immunity
✍️ By
Rajnish Ratnakar
RTI Crusader | Founder, RTI & Public Grievance Warriors of India
🗣️ “If
public servants can’t be questioned, then we are not citizens—we are subjects.
Let the people know: even the pen-pushers can face prison under IPC and BNS.”
— Rajnish Ratnakar
📅 Date of Hearing: 20 May 2025
👨⚖️ Presiding Authority: Chief Information
Commissioner Shri Heeralal Samariya
A simple RTI application I filed led
to a stinging exposé of how deep and deliberate institutional evasion runs
in our system.
Through RTI appeal CIC/DHOME/A/2024/650794,
I asked a foundational democratic question:
Can public servants be criminally prosecuted under IPC 1860 and Bharatiya
Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) 2023 for failing grievance or RTI duties?
This truth, if admitted, would have
rewritten power equations in India.
The establishment's answer? Silence, delay, diversion, and dismissal.
🚫 MHA, FAA, and CIC: A Chorus of Evasion
- The Ministry
of Home Affairs refused to answer directly and scattered the
queries to other departments.
- The First
Appellate Authority dismissed my appeal with no legal reasoning
or verification.
- And
finally, Chief Information Commissioner Heeralal Samariya,
after a delay of 183 days, issued a non-speaking,
cryptic order—without examining the RTI issues, summoning relevant
officers, or acknowledging violations.
⚔️ “They
hide behind silence. We fight with questions.”
— Rajnish Ratnakar
🧨 Caste and Constitutional Symbolism: Empowerment or
Elite Instrumentalism?
Today’s government proudly projects
its inclusivity:
- A President
from the ST community,
- A Chief
Information Commissioner from the SC community.
But as citizens, we must ask:
Are these dignitaries truly empowered to serve the oppressed—or merely
symbolic tokens used to protect the establishment?
🧩 “When
SC/ST representation only masks elite control, it becomes tokenism—not
transformation.”
— Rajnish Ratnakar
Heeralal Samariya,
despite his historic position as CIC from an SC background, failed to uphold
the constitutional mandate of natural justice and citizen
dignity in my case.
Where was the empathy? Where was the rule of law? Where was the courage?
When constitutional offices meant to
serve the people begin shielding bureaucratic wrongdoing, representation
without resistance becomes betrayal.
⚖️ Legal Breaches and Moral Collapse
|
Authority |
Failure |
Legal Breach |
|
MHA |
Dodged queries |
RTI Act Sec 2(j), 4(1)(a) |
|
FAA |
Dismissed without reasoning |
Sec 19(5), 19(6) |
|
CIC |
183-day delay, no issue framing or summons |
Sec 19(8)(a), Art. 14, 19(1)(a), 21 |
|
DoPT |
No legally qualified Commissioners |
Namit Sharma v. UOI, Anjali Bhardwaj v. UOI |
🧱 What They Wanted to Hide
Had the MHA disclosed the data
truthfully, it would have shown:
- That public
servants can face FIRs under IPC 1860 and BNS
2023.
- That
grievance and RTI officers are not immune to the law.
- That citizens
have real weapons against administrative tyranny.
This knowledge would arm the
people—and threaten the unchecked comfort of bureaucratic monarchs.
🗽 “Democracy
isn’t ruled by vote banks or power blocs. It lives in the courage of citizens
who dare to question.”
— Rajnish Ratnakar
📢 My Fight Is Your Blueprint
What happened to me isn't personal.
It's a mirror to a national system that has grown resistant to the people it
claims to serve.
Ask yourself:
- Why are
SC/ST officers silent in high positions?
- Why does no
one speak for the powerless from those seats of power?
- Are we
building a democracy, or dressing up a dictatorship?
✊ Join the Resistance. Reclaim Democracy.
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Let this blog post serve not just as a
document of one case—but as a manifesto for awakening.
🔥 “The
law belongs to the people. And no chair—however high—can escape it forever.”
— Rajnish Ratnakar
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