JUDGMENT :

A.S. Chandurkar, J.

These Letters Patent Appeals can be decided together as similar points arise for adjudication therein.

The direction issued by the State Information Commissioner, Amravati to the Assistant Registrar, Cooperative Societies to procure information sought by the respondent No.3 from the appellant-Society was challenged by filing writ petition under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India before the learned Single Judge. By the judgment under appeal the learned Single Judge was pleased to dismiss the said writ petition by holding that the Assistant Registrar under the Maharashtra Cooperative Societies Act, 1960 (for short, the Act of 1960) was obliged to provide such information as a public authority exercising powers under the Act of 1960 by procuring the same from the appellant-Society.

2. For sake of convenience the facts arising in Letters Patent Appeal No.248/2011 are being referred to.

On 10/07/2009 the respondent No.3 sought information under provisions of Right to Information Act, 2005 (for short, the Act of 2005) from the Co-operative Society. The Co-operative Society through its Information Officer did not supply the requisite information on