The State Information Commission (SIC), Punjab, has held that Public authorities cannot reject RTI application on the ground that the information request was not in the form prescribed by the State Government The Punjab Govt had prescribed 'Form A' under the Punjab RTI Rules, 2007, in which RTI applicants were supposed to answer nine queries first before the RTI application could be entertained. The form was challenged by a local lawyer Capt Navdeep Singh before the full bench of the Commission on the ground that it contravened the provisions of the RTI Act which did not prescribed any such form.Tribune Service Chandigarh 25 May 2008