TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
2015 (9) TMI 1190
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....h respondent claims to be a partner. The fourth respondent filed an application before the Public Information Officer/Regional Food Marketing Officer on 18 May 2013 in regard to the affairs of a partnership firm in which he claimed to be a partner. Thereafter another application dated 30 September 2013 was filed by the fourth respondent seeking information relating to the registration of the firm in the Food and Civil Supply Department and the work which had been assigned to the firm. M/s Sangam Transport, however filed an application under Section 11 of the Right to Information Act, 20051 with a prayer that it had objection to any information relating to it being supplied to a third party. The Public Information Officer, by an order dated ....
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....he Act with a consequential direction to recover the amount from his salary in instalments. The fourth respondent has filed a writ petition before this Court (Writ Petition No.38933 of 2014) for challenging the order of the State Information Commission dated 22 May 2014 insofar as the Commission had disposed of the proceedings without supplying the information which was sought by the fourth respondent. In addition, the fourth respondent has sought a mandamus from this Court for the disclosure of all the information, which was sought in his application dated 30 September 2013. The petitioners were not initially impleaded as parties to the proceedings. By an order of this Court dated 5 August 2014, the petitioners were directed to be imple....
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....n the parties. The fourth respondent has filed a Suit, bearing No.1330 of 2012 before the Civil Judge (Senior Division), Allahabad in which, it has been stated that on 17 December 2012, an order was passed by the Civil Judge issuing notice on an application filed under Order 39 Rule 1 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908. The fourth respondent filed another suit, being Original Suit No.108 of 2013 before the Civil Judge (Senior Division), Kaushambi, who granted an ex parte injunction on 22 April 2013. In that suit, an application was filed under Order 7 Rule 11 of the Code of Civil Procedure and since it was not being decided by the trial Court, a writ petition was filed in this Court, being Writ Petition No.1413 of 2013, which was disposed....
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....mmission has erred in directing the disclosure of information without impleadment of the petitioners. Section 11 of the Act provides that where the State Public Information Officer or the Central Public Information Officer intends to disclose any information or record which relates to a third party and has been treated as confidential by the third party, a written notice would have to be issued to the third party. Similarly, Section 19 (4) of the Act provides that if a decision of the Central or the State Information Officer, as the case may be, against which an appeal is preferred relates to information of a third party, a reasonable opportunity of being heard has to be afforded to that third party. In the present case, the fourth respo....