COMPLAINTS BEFORE THE SIC OR CIC AND DISPOSAL OF APPEALS AND COMPLAINTS BY THE SIC OR CIC AS THE CASE MAY BE, PROVISION MADE BY THE LAW CODE MANUAL PREFIXED BY THE RTI ACT, 2005 IN THIS BEHALF.

COMPLAINTS:-- If any person is unable to submit a request to a public information officer either by reason that such an officer has not been appointed by the concerned public authority, or the public information officer has refused to accept his or her application or appeal for forwarding the same to the public information officer or the appellate authority, as the case may be, or he has been refused access to any information requested by him under the RTI Act, or he has not been given a response to a request for information with in the time limit specified with in the Act, or he has been required to pay an amount of fee which he considers unreasonable, or he believes that he has been given incomplete, misleading of a false information, he can make a complaint to the State information Commission or the Central Information Commission, as the case may be. (2) DISPOSAL OF APPEALS AND COMPLAINTS BY THE SIC:-- The State information Commission decides the Appeals and complaints and conveys its decision to the Appellant/Complainant and the FAA /PIO.The Commission may decide an Appeal /Complaint after hearing the parties to the Appeal/Complaint or by inspection of the documents produced by the Appellant/Complainant and the PIO or such senior officer of the public authority who decided the first Appeal. If the commission chooses to hear the parties before deciding the Appeal or the Complaint, the Commission will inform of the date of heating to the appellant or the Complainant at least seven clear days before the date of hearing. The appellant/Complainant has the discretion to be present in person at the time of hearing or may opt not to be present. It is particularly mentioned here that the APIO or the PIO has been declared responsible for forwarding the Application or Appeal of the Appellant/Complainant to the PIO or the First Appellant authority as the case may be, if the appellant believes that he has been given incomplete, misleading or a false information and the applicant can make a complainant to the State information Commission or the Central information commission, as the case may be.