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2021 Supreme(Guj) 573

ASHUTOSH J.SHASTRI
MAHITI ADHIKAR GUJARAT PAHEL – Appellant
Versus
STATE INFORMATION COMMISSIONER – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
For the Appellant : HARSH K RAVAL, MR AMRESH N PATEL
For the Respondent: MR BHARGAV PANDYA ASSISTANT GOVERNMENT PLEADER

ORDER :

1. The present petition is filed by an independent registered Public Charitable Trust through its Chief Executive, invoking extra ordinary jurisdiction of this Court under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India and has sought the following reliefs :-

    “8(A) To quash and set aside the impugned orders annexed at Annexure – A Colly and hold and declare the same as improper, unjust, unconstitutional and unfair and in violation of provisions of the Right to Information Act, 2005.

(B) This Hon’ble Court may be pleased to direct the respondent to not to pass any orders in nature of issuing direction of banning, prohibiting and/or blacklisting any citizen from any specific or indefinite time period.

(C) To grant any other and further reliefs that may be deemed fit and proper and in the interest of justice.”

2. The petition is filed basically for raising grievance against the impugned order on the premise that the respondent – authorities have no power to blacklist a person who is seeking information and further has no authority to prevent a citizen from soliciting information for a period of five years. Of course, this petition is not filed by those two aggrieved persons who a

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