SANJAY K.AGRAWAL
Rameshwarnath Pandey – Appellant
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State of Chhattisgarh – Respondent
SANJAY K. AGRAWAL, J.
1. Short question involved in this writ petition is whether the Chhattisgarh State Information Commission is justified in recommending the disciplinary action against the petitioner under Section 20(2) of the Right to Information Act, 2005 (henceforth "Act, 2005").
2. Aforesaid question arises in following factual backdrop:-
(2.1) The petitioner has joined the post of Tahsildar, Tamnar, District Raigarh with effect from 26.9.2013. According to him, he supplied the requisite information to the respondent No. 4 on 03.06.2015.
(2.2) The respondent No. 2- State Information Commission, by its impugned order dated 30.05.2015, has directed disciplinary action against the petitioner under Section 20(2) of the Act, 2005 for non furnishing such information as applied by respondent No.4, against which instant writ petition has been filed by the petitioner herein on the ground that none of the ingredients as required under Section 20(2) of the Act, 2005 is made out to pass order of recommending disciplinary action by State Information Commission against him.
3. Shri Ashish Surana, learned counsel for the petitioner would submit that order passed by the State Information
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