Heard.

2. In W.P.No.21441 of 2009, the Public Information Officer of Villupuram District Central Cooperative Bank Ltd., is the petitioner. He has come forward to challenge the notice, dated 9. 2009, in which the petitioner was fined by the Commission for mala fide denial of an information for a sum of Rs.25000/- and also was recommended to the Registrar of Co-operative Societies to take severe disciplinary action against the officer concerned. This was on the ground that the public authority had not only denied the information and showed scant respect to the Information Commission by absenting himself from attending the enquiry and sending a lower lever officer of the Co-operative Department to attend the enquiry. It was also stated that the information asked for should be supplied in full to the applicant and delivered at his residence.

3. Pursuant to the said order, the petitioner Bank supplied the information to the second respondent and also produced an acknowledgment, dated 19. 2009. They had also informed the Commission about the fact of having supplied the information free of cost and also produced the acknowledgment. They have only come forward to challenge the