New Delhi, May 24 (PTI) The Central Information Commission today directed the CBI to make public information related to corporate lobbyist Niira Radia in the ongoing spectrum allocation scam investigations, overruling the agency's argument that the disclosure would affect probe.
The case relates to a Lucknow-based RTI applicant Tanya Thakur who had sought to know from the CBI whether Niira Radia has been made an accused in the telecom spectrum scam or her name is figuring at the "discussion stage".
She also demanded to know whether the the then DIG Vineet Agrawal had written any letter to the then DGIT Milap Jain seeking information about telephonic conversations of Radia being tapped by the Income Tax Department and other related details.
The CBI has rejected the information citing section 8(1)(h) of the RTI Act which allows withholding information which may affect any ongoing probe.