By the Court.—For the purposes of these proceedings, the parties would be referred to in terms of the array of parties in Civil Misc. Writ Petition No. 45657 of 2014.

2. The first petitioner, M/s. Sangam Transport is a partnership firm in which the fourth respondent claims to be a partner. The fourth respondent filed an application before the Public Information Officer/Regional Food Marketing Officer on 18 May 2013 in regard to the affairs of a partnership firm in which he claimed to be a partner. Thereafter another application dated 30 September 2013 was filed by the fourth respondent seeking information relating to the registration of the firm in the Food and Civil Supply Department and the work which had been assigned to the firm. M/s. Sangam Transport, however filed an application under Section 11 of the Right to Information Act, 2005 (the Act) with a prayer that it had objection to any information relating to it being supplied to a third party. The Public Information Officer, by an order dated 8 November 2013 bearing No. 2283, declined to divulge the information sought by the application dated 18 May 2013 for the aforesaid reason. With regard to the application dated 3