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AVINASH G. GHAROTE, ANIL S. KILOR, URMILA JOSHI-PHALKE
People Welfare Society – Appellant
Versus
State Information Commissioner – Respondent
ORDER :
1. The Full Bench has been constituted to answer the following question:
2. The need for formulating the above question arose on account of a discord found by the learned Division Bench between various decisions of this Court taking opposite views on the above issue, by one set of judgments holding that the Trust/Society running an educational institution, which educational institution was receiving grants from the Government, would not fall within the definition of ‘Public Authority’ as it was the educational institution which was receiving the grants and not the Trust/Society and therefore information vis-a-vis the affairs of the Trust/Society as opposed to information in respect of the educational institution, could not be termed as ‘information’ within the meaning of the expression as defined in section 2(f) of the Right to Information Act (‘RTI Act’ for short hereinafter) so as to invoke the jurisdiction
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