Heard Mr. A.K. Singh, learned senior counsel assisted by Mr. A. Pathania, learned counsel appearing for the petitioners, Mr. HS Thangkhiew, learned senior counsel assisted by Mr. N Mozika, learned counsel appearing for the respondent No.1 and respondent No.2 in person.

2. The respondent No.2 Shri. B. Bhattacharjee (Advocate) filed an application dated 07.08.2014 under the Right to Information Act, 2005 (for short ‘the RTI Act, 2005’) to the Public Information Officer (for short ‘PIO’) i.e. writ petitioner No.2 for furnishing the information with regard to one Shri. Aman Sinha, who had been conferred the status of designated Senior vide Memo No. HCM II/168/2014/2018 dated Shillong, the 31st July, 2014 by the High Court of Meghalaya. The said application dated 07.08.2014 was rejected by the PIO i.e. writ petitioner No.2 vide order dated 02.09.2014 and also the Appeal No.1 of 2014 to the appellate authority i.e. writ petitioner No.1 against the said order dated 02.09.2014 had been dismissed vide order dated 13.11.2014. The said order dated 02.09.2014 for dismissing the said application filed by the respondent No.2 and also the order dated 13.11.2014 for dismissing the Appeal No