2011 (1) TMI 1240

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....ingh, Deputy Advocate General, Haryana, for the Respondent. ORDER The conspectus of the facts, which needs a necessary mention for a limited purpose of deciding the core controversy involved in the instant writ petition and emanating from the record, is that Jai Singh son of Atma Ram (Respondent No. 2) filed an application (Annexure P2/T) before the petitioner-State Public Information Office....

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.... respondent filed the first appeal and the 1st Appellate Authority-cum-BDPO (for short "FAA") directed him (petitioner) to supply the information to Respondent No. 2, vide letter bearing No. 1568, dated 14-11-2008 (Annexure P3/T) within two days. Petitioner-SPIO, instead of supplying the information, again arbitrarily raised the demand of Rs. 9950/- for giving the information. 3. Still agg....

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....ntext. 6. Ex facie, the main celebrated argument of the learned counsel that there is no provision under the Act/Rules, vide which, the SIC can direct the petitioner-SPIO to supply the information free of costs to Respondent No. 2, is not only devoid of merit but misplaced as well. 7. What is not disputed here is that Respondent No. 2 filed an application (Annexure P2/T) seeking th....

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....e person making request for the information shall be provided the information free of charge where a public authority fails to comply with the time-limits specified in sub-section (1). 10. As is evident from the record that the petitioner-SPIO did not comply with the time-limits specified in sub-section (1) of Section 7 of the Act and did not supply the information, despite specific order/....