Order on Board

06.05.2026

1. By way of the present petition, the petitioner assails the impugned order dated 07.09.2022 passed in Second Appeal No.A/3354/2021 (Annexure P/1), whereby the appeal preferred by respondent No. 2 under Section 19(3) of the Right to Information Act, 2005 (for short, ‘RTI Act, 2005’) has been allowed without affording any opportunity of hearing to the petitioner or considering his reply, and he has been held guilty of denial of information with a direction to furnish the same within 30 days at his own cost. The petitioner further challenges the initiation of proceedings under Sections 20(1) and 20(2) of the RTI Act, 2005, including issuance of show cause notice proposing imposition of maximum penalty and recommendation for disciplinary action, contending that such proceedings have been initiated mechanically without any prior determination of misconduct. It is submitted that the matter now being fixed only for penalty proceedings on 14.11.2022 is arbitrary and unsustainable, warranting interference by this Court. The petitioner has prayed for following reliefs :-

“10.1 Issue an appropriate writ and set aside the order dated 07.09.2022 (Annexure P/1), where