Bengal
Letter takes four months to travel three kilometres
- The Statesman
- 01 Feb 2015
biswabrata goswami
Midnapore, 31 Jan: A registered letter took more than four months to reach its destination and that too over a distance of just three kilometres.
The letter in question. posted with the registration number RW476232875IN, is a reply to an RTI query sent by the Deputy Superintendent of Police, West Midnapore to Dr Abhijit Guha, an Associate Professor of the Department of Anthropology at Vidyasagar University and was dispatched from the Midnapore Police Line post office on 05.09.2014 with an acknowledgement card.
The sealed letter reached Vidyasagar University post office located just 3 kilometers from the Midnapore Police line on 27 January.
The track record of the letter at the website of the Indian Postal Department revealed more strange facts.
It shows that the letter was posted not from Midnapore Police Lines but from Krishnapur Post office on 22 January at Kolkata and then via Khragpur reached Vidyasagar University Post Office. (http://www.indiapost.gov.in/RNetTracking.aspx?RNetNo=Rw476232875in).
It is not at all clear why the letter was posted twice once on 05.09.2014 and for the second time on 22.01.2015 from Kolkata about four months later.
When contacted the
RTI applicant, Dr Guha stated that the “information he sought was a report of an enquiry
conducted by the Midnapore Police on the misappropriation of UGC funds and impersonation perpetrated by Professor Swapan Kumar Pramanick, a former Vice-Chancellor of Vidyasagar University.
Dr. Guha has already submitted his complaint to the Senior Superintendent of Post Offices, Midnapore Division to enquire into the delayed delivery of the letter and he suspected that something went wrong into the dispatch of the information to him since the Public Information Officer is not providing the police enquiry report for the last several months.”
Midnapore, 31 Jan: A registered letter took more than four months to reach its destination and that too over a distance of just three kilometres.
The letter in question. posted with the registration number RW476232875IN, is a reply to an RTI query sent by the Deputy Superintendent of Police, West Midnapore to Dr Abhijit Guha, an Associate Professor of the Department of Anthropology at Vidyasagar University and was dispatched from the Midnapore Police Line post office on 05.09.2014 with an acknowledgement card.
The sealed letter reached Vidyasagar University post office located just 3 kilometers from the Midnapore Police line on 27 January.
The track record of the letter at the website of the Indian Postal Department revealed more strange facts.
It shows that the letter was posted not from Midnapore Police Lines but from Krishnapur Post office on 22 January at Kolkata and then via Khragpur reached Vidyasagar University Post Office. (http://www.indiapost.gov.in/RNetTracking.aspx?RNetNo=Rw476232875in).
It is not at all clear why the letter was posted twice once on 05.09.2014 and for the second time on 22.01.2015 from Kolkata about four months later.
When contacted the
RTI applicant, Dr Guha stated that the “information he sought was a report of an enquiry
conducted by the Midnapore Police on the misappropriation of UGC funds and impersonation perpetrated by Professor Swapan Kumar Pramanick, a former Vice-Chancellor of Vidyasagar University.
Dr. Guha has already submitted his complaint to the Senior Superintendent of Post Offices, Midnapore Division to enquire into the delayed delivery of the letter and he suspected that something went wrong into the dispatch of the information to him since the Public Information Officer is not providing the police enquiry report for the last several months.”
