TaxTMI 
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2014 (1) TMI 1673
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....uments sought, except a copy of the No Objection Certificate issued by the Fire and Rescue Services Department, were furnished to the petitioner, they were not attested or certified by the first respondent as copies furnished under the Act. The petitioner has also stated that though he met the second respondent, who is the Appellate Authority under the Act and requested him to issue attested certified copies, the second respondent did not accede to his request, but on the other hand he gave oral directions to his subordinate to issue only unattested or uncertified copies stating that there is a general instruction from the Local Self-Government Department that copies issued under the Act shall not be certified. In this writ petition the pet....
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....ents are extracted below :- "5. It is submitted that, there is no mandate or provision under the Right to Information Act, 2005 to certify the copies issued under the said Act as "copies issued under the Right to Information Act". The Act does not contemplate the same. The Act only intends and provides for the citizens to secure access to the information. It does not provide for certifying the copies as issued under the Act. The issuance of large volume and numbers of documents with such certification will unnecessarily take precious working hours of the officials. The same is not contemplated by the legislature. 6. The certified copies can be issued only in respect of the public documents. Otherwise, the certification to that e....
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....ified copies. The term "information" is defined in Section 2(f) of the Act as follows :- "2(f) "Information" means any material in any form, including records, documents, memos, e-mails, opinions, advices, press releases, circulars, orders, logbooks, contracts, reports, papers, samples, models, data material held in any electronic form and information relating to any private body which can be accessed by a public authority under any other law for the time being in force." The definition of the term "information" includes records, documents, memos, e-mails, opinions, advices, press releases, circulars, orders, logbooks, contracts, reports, papers, samples, models, data materials held in any electronic form, etc. It also includes infor....