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IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM
SUSHRUT ARVIND DHARMADHIKARI, SYAM KUMAR V.M.
Cochin International Airport Limited – Appellant
Versus
State Information Commission – Respondent
JUDGMENT :
Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari, J.
Heard Sri.S.Sreekumar, learned Senior Counsel appearing for the appellant with Adv.Sri.S.Harikrishnan, and Sri.M.Ajay and Sri.Paul Jacob, learned counsel appearing for respondents.
2. Taking into consideration the facts and the similitude of the controversy involved in these batch of appeals, they have been heard analogously and decided by this common judgment.
3. The facts of W.A No.45 of 2023 are taken up for consideration for deciding the batch of appeals.
4. The present appeals arise against the final judgment dated 02.12.2022 passed by the learned Single Bench of this Court in W.P.(C) No. 20387 of 2019 and connected cases (Cochin International Airport Ltd. v. The State Information Commission & Another), wherein the Court after undertaking a meticulous analysis concluded that the Cochin International Airport Authority Ltd. (for short, ‘CIAL’), is a ‘public authority’ within the confines of Sec. 2(h)(d)(i) of the Right to Information Act, 2005 (for short, ‘RTI Act’) and therefore amenable to obligations of disclosure of information held by it to third parties and public at large, approaching it for divulging various heads of information sou
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