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17. The claim of 'missing files' indicates possibility of deliberate destruction of records to hide the corruption, fraud or immoral practices of public servants, which is a crime under IPC. The missing documents will either allow a criminal to go scot-free and does not facilitate the honest and innocent to prove his honesty. The criminals will not be punished and innocents will not be saved if records are not protected and accessed. In our society, where strength and unity of criminals is far higher and they roam around freely due to lack of evidence while the honest get into jails due to lack of access to records or absence of records. The senior- officer-applicant at this advance-age wanted to clear of the baseless charges, through this RTI application.