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7. SUBMISSION OF BOTH PARTIES:

7.1 Appellant's submissions:
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Wg. Cdr. Sanjeev Sharma Vs. CPIOs, Indian Air Force In the initial hearing of these Appeals, Appellant started out by giving a brief background of Indian Air Force by mentioning the number of Commands, Stations etc. to highlight an impending issue, which is that IAF has only 8 CPIOs, viz. 7 at Command level and 1 at HQ level. He alleged this to be a concerted step taken by the higher echelons of IAF to only frustrate the spirit of RTI Act and it is per force that he has been filing number of RTI Applications with only one CPIO. He admits that largely IAF has been doing well and that he was himself a proud part of it, yet there is a parallel economy running inside the fraternity and there are different sources of corruption. It is asserted that his primary intention is to fight corruption. He raises the issue of funds allocated in the name of non-public funds being misused for personal interests within the hierarchy and that it is used as a source of income generation with vested interests rather than aiming at the welfare of the forces.