The State Bank of India (SBI) resorted to misinformation, and in some cases falsehood, in its responses to Right to Information (RTI) inquiries on the controversial electoral bonds scheme, even as it regularly funnelled information on the scheme to the Finance Ministry, documents reviewed by HuffPost India establish. The SBI’s increasingly evasive, and in some cases outright false, answers to 13 pointed questions filed by transparency activist Venkatesh Nayak, in an RTI request dated December 4, 2019, reveal the extent to which bank officials are prepared to protect their political masters in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government. The bank’s ‘answers’ were signed off by Naresh Kumar Raheja, SBI’s Deputy General Manager and Central Public Information Officer.
— source huffingtonpost.in | 29/01/2020