Court No. - 29
Case :- WRIT - C No. - 41755 of 2019 Petitioner :- Ajay Singh Respondent :- State Information Commissioner And 2 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Brijesh Kumar Srivastava Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C.,Kunal Ravi Singh
Hon'ble Pankaj Mithal,J. Hon'ble Vipin Chandra Dixit,J.
Heard Sri Brijesh Kumar Srivastava, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri Kunal Ravi Singh, learned counsel appearing for the State Information Commission.
The petitioner only seeks an order in these proceedings for the State Information Commission to dispose of the appeal under the Right to Information Act, 2005.
We are not inclined to issue directions in a matter such as the present merely because a party has moved this Court under Article 226 of the Constitution to direct the State Information Commission to decide the pending appeal overriding several cases which are equally pressing and are pending, by granting priority to a particular case. The fact that a particular case requires urgent disposal is to be considered by the State Information Commission itself. We, accordingly, dispose of the petition by permitting the petitioner to move an application before the State Information Commission pointing out the grounds of urgency. In the event, petitioner does so, the Commission may consider whether the appeal should be expedited having regard to the urgency of the case and if it is found that the matter is urgent to the needful by deciding it most expeditiously, if possible within three weeks.
There shall be no order as to costs.
Order Date :- 20.12.2019 C. MANI