The Central Information Commission (CIC) has issued a show-cause notice to the Mumbai IMD's chief public information officer (CPIO) for including GST in the fees that he asked a city-based activist to pay in advance for furnishing information under the RTI. In the order passed on February 5, the CIC also said that the demand of GST charges made by the CPIO is "illegal and unreasonable" and observed that a public authority cannot quote a price for the information treating it as goods or service of sellable nature.