Sudhanshu Dhulia, J.

Respondent no. 2 sought certain information under the Right to Information Act, 2005 from the Public Information Officer of Peyjal Nigam, Dehradun Division, Rajendra Nagar vide application dated 04.08.2016. Since the information as sought by respondent no. 2 was not supplied to him, he filed the first appeal where the first appellate authority vide order dated 05.10.2016 directed the Public Information Officer to supply the information to respondent no. 2 within a period of one week. Even after the orders of the first appellate authority, the information was not supplied to the respondent no. 2 and, therefore, he preferred the second appeal before the State Information Commissioner. During the pendency of the second appeal, the State Information Commissioner vide order dated 13.09.2017 observed that the due process of tender has not been adopted and directed the Secretary, Peyjal Nigam, Dehradun to conduct an enquiry as to whether all the tenders were published, how many contractors participated in each tender process and how much money was released to each contractors for the construction work, etc. Thereafter, the State Information Commissioner vide