New Delhi, July 29 - Rapping the National Commission for Women (NCW) for failing to provide information under the Right to Information Act (RTI) on the 2006 Nithari killings, the Central Information Commission (CIC) has asked the women's rights panel to pay Rs.10,000 to the appellant for the delay.

Commodore (retired) Lokesh K. Batra had filed an applicationn under the RTI in December 2007 about NCW members and money spent on their tours during Feb 2005 to Dec 2006 - between the phase when the first Nithari killing took place to the period when the gruesome killings surfaced.

Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah in a ruling Tuesday found that details were not furnished to Batra as the commission had not maintained any records.

'In the present circumstances, because of the incapacity of the public authority to maintain what must be regarded as basic information, like records of tours of members of the NCW at public expense and public distribution, are basic information not only required to be maintained but in fact to be maintained in a manner and the form which facilitates the right to information under this act,' Habibullah observed.

The CIC has asked the commission to review its record in consultation with the National Informatics Centre.