{"id":31184,"date":"2008-12-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/shri-subhash-rangbulla-vs-supreme-court-of-india-on-1-december-2008"},"modified":"2016-08-06T15:19:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T09:49:48","slug":"shri-subhash-rangbulla-vs-supreme-court-of-india-on-1-december-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/shri-subhash-rangbulla-vs-supreme-court-of-india-on-1-december-2008","title":{"rendered":"Shri Subhash Rangbulla vs Supreme Court Of India on 1 December, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Central Information Commission<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Shri Subhash Rangbulla vs Supreme Court Of India on 1 December, 2008<\/div>\n<pre>               CENTRAL INFORMATION COMMISSION\n                 Appeal No. CIC\/WB\/A\/2007\/00589 dated 19-6-2007\n                   Right to Information Act 2005 - Section 19\n\nAppellant:          Shri Subhash Rangbulla;\nRespondent:         Supreme Court of India\n\n\nFACTS<\/pre>\n<p>      By an application of 22-2-07 Shri Subhash Rangbulla, President, Lok<br \/>\nShakti Consumers Association, Fazilka, District Ferozepur (Punjab) applied to<br \/>\nthe Registrar, Supreme Court of India, seeking the following information:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>      &#8220;Information may kindly be provided to the applicant that<br \/>\n      whether this association may get the counsel from the panel of<br \/>\n      free legal aid or not. If yes, then please send the specimen of<br \/>\n      concerned application &amp; detail of other necessary information\/<br \/>\n      formalities.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>      To this he received a response from Shri Ashok Kumar, CPIO,<br \/>\nSupreme Court of India on 23-3-2007 as follows: &#8211;\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>      &#8220;You may contact the following for seeking legal aid and advice<br \/>\n      and filing cases in the Supreme Court of India.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>      1. The Secretary, Supreme Court Legal Services Committee,<br \/>\n         109, Lawyer Chambers, supreme Court Compound, New<br \/>\n         Delhi.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>      2. The Secretary, Supreme Court Middle Income Group Society,<br \/>\n         109, Lawyers Chambers, Supreme Court Compound, New<br \/>\n         Delhi.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>      Not satisfied appellant moved his first appeal before Shri T.N. Sansi,<br \/>\nRegistrar, Supreme Court of India on 7-4-07 with the following plea:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>      &#8220;The applicant had sought the information through letter dated<br \/>\n      22.2.2007 (copy attached) that whether the Lok Shakti<br \/>\n      Consumer Ass. (Regd.) Fazilka may get or deserves to get the<br \/>\n      counsel from the panel of free legal aid or not. But the central<br \/>\n      information officer has not provided the said information to the<br \/>\n      applicant.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>      Shri Sunil Thomas, Appellate Authority in a speaking order of 2nd May<br \/>\n2007, dismissed this appeal as follows:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>      &#8220;By the letter of the appellant, the details sought from CPIO<br \/>\n      were not &#8216;information&#8217; as contemplated under section 2(f) of the<br \/>\n      Right to Information Act, but only an opinion on the eligibility of<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">                                      1<\/span><br \/>\n       the association to get free legal aid. Since the CPIO was not<br \/>\n      maintaining any such records, the CPIO justifiably furnished the<br \/>\n      available material for furnishing the details of authority which<br \/>\n      could answer the request.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Appellant&#8217;s prayer in his second appeal before us is as below: &#8211;\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>      &#8220;After accepting the instant appeal of the appellant, the<br \/>\n      respondents may kindly be directed to provide the sought<br \/>\n      information as early as possible to the appellant in the<br \/>\n      interest of justice and amount of penalty may also be<br \/>\n      imposed upon the respondents so that in future they will do<br \/>\n      their duty honestly.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>      This prayer he has based on quoting the definition of &#8216;information&#8217; u\/s<br \/>\n2(f) of the Act, which includes &#8220;opinions, advices&#8221;, and pleading that if the<br \/>\nRegistrar of Supreme Court did not hold the information the matter should<br \/>\nhave been transferred u\/s 6 (3) of the Act.\n<\/p>\n<p>      The appeal was heard through videoconference                 on   1-12-08.<br \/>\nContacted on the telephone by the Registry appellant had assured that<br \/>\nalthough he would not be present himself, he would be represented by<br \/>\ncounsel. However, although commencement of hearing was delayed, only<br \/>\nthe following are present.\n<\/p>\n<p>      Respondents at CIC Studio.\n<\/p>\n<p>      Shri Amit Anand Tiwari, Advocate, Supreme Court.<br \/>\n      Shri Raj Pal Arora, CPIO &amp; Addl. Registrar, Supreme Court of India.\n<\/p>\n<p>      After allowing 15 minutes for appellant or his representative to appear<br \/>\nat the NIC Studio, Ferozepur, it was concluded that appellant had opted not to<br \/>\nbe present.\n<\/p>\n<p>     Learned counsel for respondent Shri Amit Anand Tiwari submitted that<br \/>\nall that the appellant had asked for was an opinion and not information which<br \/>\nwould have merited transfer u\/s 6 (3) (i). In this context he again read out<br \/>\nfrom the RTI Application of Shri Subhash Rangbulla in which the question is<br \/>\non the possibility of the association obtaining counsel from the panel of Free<br \/>\nLegal Aid. It was for the CPIO of the organisation to whom application had<br \/>\nbeen made, to determine in his response, if such opinion was held in material<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">                                       2<\/span><br \/>\n form, which would qualify it as &#8216;information&#8217;. Appellant had therefore been<br \/>\nadvised accordingly.\n<\/p>\n<p>                                 DECISION NOTICE<\/p>\n<p>           The order of Shri Sunil Thomas, 1st Appellate Authority, Supreme Court<br \/>\nof India of 2-5-07 clarifies the position with regard to information sought. In<br \/>\nfact, the Supreme Court of India has assisted in guiding appellant to the<br \/>\nappropriate authority to whom application can be moved u\/s 6 (1). However,<br \/>\nthe concerned public authorities which are the authorities named by the CPIO<br \/>\nin his response to the application were the appropriate authorities to answer<br \/>\nthe question of appellant Shri Rangbulla, even if this were only with regard to<br \/>\nrequest for an opinion, since it is those authorities which could hold a<br \/>\nrecorded opinion on the subject. Only information held in material form can<br \/>\nqualify as &#8216;information&#8217; under the RTI Act, 2005<\/p>\n<p>           Under the circumstances, we would however advise the CPIO,<br \/>\nSupreme Court of India to ensure that such cases are transferred to the<br \/>\nappropriate public authority u\/s 6 (3) sub-section (i), particularly, if these are<br \/>\nrelated to the area of responsibility of the Supreme Court of India, such as<br \/>\npublic authorities in this case are. However, given the provision of Section 6<br \/>\n(1) of the RTI Act which requires that an applicant is expected to make an<br \/>\napplication to &#8220;the Central Public Information Officer or State Public<br \/>\nInformation Officer, as the case may be, of the concerned public authority&#8221; 1 ,<br \/>\nthe response of the CPIO in the present case is sound in law and is therefore,<br \/>\nupheld.         With the above observation, we find that this appeal is<br \/>\nunsustainable and is hereby dismissed. There will be no cost.\n<\/p>\n<p>           Announced in the hearing. Notice of this decision be given free of cost<br \/>\nto the parties.\n<\/p>\n<p>(Wajahat Habibullah)<br \/>\nChief Information Commissioner<br \/>\n1-12-2008<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">1<\/span><br \/>\n    Underlined by us<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">                                          3<\/span><br \/>\n Authenticated true copy. Additional copies of orders shall be supplied against<br \/>\napplication and payment of the charges prescribed under the Act to the CPIO<br \/>\nof this Commission.\n<\/p>\n<p>(Pankaj K.P. Shreyaskar)<br \/>\nJoint Registrar<br \/>\n1-12-2008<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">                                      4<\/span>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Central Information Commission Shri Subhash Rangbulla vs Supreme Court Of India on 1 December, 2008 CENTRAL INFORMATION COMMISSION Appeal No. CIC\/WB\/A\/2007\/00589 dated 19-6-2007 Right to Information Act 2005 &#8211; Section 19 Appellant: Shri Subhash Rangbulla; Respondent: Supreme Court of India FACTS By an application of 22-2-07 Shri Subhash Rangbulla, President, Lok Shakti Consumers Association, Fazilka, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-central-information-commission","category-judgements"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Shri Subhash Rangbulla vs Supreme Court Of India on 1 December, 2008 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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