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Khetramani finally gets her land records courtesy RTI |
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Khetramani Samantrai bought a small piece of land near Dhauli, Bhubaneswar from Subha Behera. Karunakar Swain a notary prepared the land deed documents, which was submitted at the District Sub-Register Office (DSO) in Bhubaneswar after completion of the legal formalities. But Khetramani did not receive the original documents in spite of producing the receipt of the deed.
Khetramani Samantrai and Karunakar Swain have been constantly visiting the DSO since the last one and a half years but the clerk concerned did not hand over the documents to them.
On 13th July 2006 she came to the RTI camp held in CYSD Bhubaneswar, seeking guidance as to how she could redress her grievances using RTI.
At the camp, Khetramani was assisted by volunteers in filling up the application for information under section 6 (1). A few volunteers accompanied her to the DSO and approached the head clerk to know the cause of the delay in providing the original documents. The response from the clerk was not very convincing.
The case was discussed with the Public Information Officer (PIO) of the DSO. When the volunteers insisted in registering the complain through RTI, the PIO intervened and asked the officials to look into the case and produce the land deed papers immediately. The head clerk then produced the document in 15 minutes and officially handed it over to Khetramani who finally got justice after resorting to the RTI tool. Submitted by CYSD, Bhubaneswar |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 20 June 2007 )
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