JUDGMENT :

1. The High Court of Gujarat on its administrative side has filed this petition with a prayer that the action of the respondent no.1 i.e. Gujarat Information Commission directing the petitioner to provide information and documents to the remaining points, available be declared as illegal and violative of the provisions of the Right to Information Act, 2005 (for short ‘the Act’). A further direction is prayed to quash and set aside the judgment dated 23.06.2016 passed by the respondent No.1 in Appeal No.769 of 2014.

2. Facts in brief indicate that the respondent no.2 who is a Judicial Officer submitted an application on 17.02.2014, seeking information in reference to 21 points. The application was received by the Public Information Officer on 18.02.2014. On 19.02.2014 a money order was received. Thereafter, the Public Information Officer initiated a correspondence with the concerned department for collecting the information as sought for by the respondent no.2 that involved a considerable time.

3. Aggrieved by the action of the Public Information Officer, the respondent no.2 filed First Appeal No.37 of 2014 on 11.04.2014 before the Appellate Authority. He contended that info