Give details of expensive gifts: CIC to Hudco

NEW DELHI: Failure to provide information on an

RTI

plea seeking details of money spent on expensive gifts and beneficiaries has prompted the

Central Information Commission

(CIC) to direct Hudco to furnish the information.

RTI applicant

Vishwas Bhamburkar

had alleged that gifts given by the

PSU

included gadgets like iPhones, iPads and Mont Blanc pens. Information commissioner M

Sridhar Acharyulu

said the officials' attitude "gives rise to suspicion that there was a serious scandal of purchasing gifts worth crores".