ORDER :

In these petitions, basically petitioners have questioned the validity of the orders/notice passed by the Karnataka Information Commission (Hereinafter referred to as ‘KIC” for short) bearing Nos. KIC 5129 APL 2014 dated 25.2.2015(W.P.18449/2015), KIC 3498 PTN 2012 dated 1.7.2013 (W.P. 38347/2013), KIC3499PTN2012 dated 16.09.2013 (W.P.58192/2013), KIC6920PTN2013 dated 23.01.2015 (W.P.8053/2015) and KIC.6728PTN2013 dated 01.04.2015 (W.P.22774/2015) and sought for declaring that the petitioner – Bengaluru Turf Club Limited (Hereinafter referred to as ‘BTCL’ for short), Mysore Race Club Limited (Hereinafter referred to as ‘MRCL’ for short, Ladies Club and The Institution of Engineer (India) are not ‘public authority’ as defined under Section 2(h) of the Right to Information Act, 2005 (Hereinafter referred to as ‘’Act, 2005’ for short).

2. In these petitions, contesting respondents – complainants filed applications seeking certain information from the respective petitioners. In not providing information sought or in not taking any action on their application, contesting respo