Court No. - 29
Case :- WRIT - C No. - 38356 of 2019 Petitioner :- Mahendra Prasad Gupta Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 4 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- R.V. Pandey Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C.,Kunal Ravi Singh
Hon'ble Pankaj Mithal,J.
Hon'ble Dr. Yogendra Kumar Srivastava,J.
Heard Sri R.V. Pandey, learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for respondent nos.1, 3 and 4. Sri Kunal Ravi Singh, has accepted notice on behalf of respondent no.2.
The petitioner's claim that he was owner of the rice mill M/S Giraja Shankar Rice Industries. The respondent no.5 is a rival owner of the rice mill namely Shikha Rice Mill. He has applied under Right to Information Act, 2005 for obtaining certain information regarding the petitioner. When the aforesaid information was not supplied, he preferred an appeal to the Appellate Authority i.e. U.P. State Information Commission.
On the said appeal the Commission has issued notice dated 24.09.2019 to the petitioner.
The petitioner has approached this Court for the quashing of the said notice on the ground that the information sought is of a personal nature and cannot be supplied to the respondent no.5.
Be that as it may, the State Information Commission has only issued notice to the petitioner. The petitioner in response to the said notice may appear before the Commission and take whatever objection he deem appropriate and the same would be considered by the State Commission before passing final order.
The writ petition stands disposed of accordingly.
Order Date :- 28.11.2019 Radhika