V.K. Jain, Member—The complainant in Revision Petition No.3146 of 2010, namely Shri Sanjay Kumar Mishra submitted an application under Section 6(1) of the Right to Information Act, 2005 (hereinafter referred to as the ‘RTI Act’) to the Public Information Officer (PIO), seeking information detailed in paras 1 and 4 of the application. The information having not been provided within the prescribed period of thirty days, he preferred an appeal before the State Information Commission. The said appeal was dismissed on 06.04.2011. Thereupon, he filed a complaint under the provisions of Consumer Protection Act, 1986 (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Act’), claiming to be a consumer within the meaning of the said Act and seeking compensation from the opposite parties in the complaint i.e. the Public Information Officer of the Central Information Commission, Punjab and the Chief Information Commissioner of the said Information Commission. The complaint was opposed by the opposite parties; inter-alia on the ground that the District Forum had no jurisdiction to entertain a complaint arising out of the orders passed under the RTI Act. The District Forum took the view that it had the jur