IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH

101+213 CM-19892-CWP-2024 in/&

CWP-13580-2015 Date of Decision :09.01.2025 The Punjab State Federation of Cooperative House Building Socieities Limited ...Petitioner Versus The State Information Commission, Punjab and another ....Respondents

102+213 CM-50-CWP-2025 in/&

CWP-20904-2015 The Punjab State Coopearive Bank Limited ...Petitioner Versus State Information Commission, Punjab and others ....Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI Present: Mr. Ashwani Prashar, Advocate for the petitioner in CWP-13580-2015.

Mr. J.S. Toor, Advocate with Mr. Adhiraj Toor, Advocate for the petitioner in CWP-20904-2015.

Ms. Shruti, AAG, Punjab.

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Harsimran Singh Sethi, J. (Oral)

1. In the present petitions, challenge is to orders dated 20.05.2015 (Annexure P/3) and 27.08.2015 (Annexure P/5) passed by the State Information Commission, Punjab. In the impugned order dated 20.05.2015 (Annexure P/3) though, the petitioner-HOUSEFED and Cooperative Bank have been held to be a Cooperative Society but have been treated as public authority within the domain of Right to Information Act, 2005 on the ground that State has persuasive control ov