IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Special Appeal No.638 of 2017 Anant Singh Saini ….. Appellant Vs.

Uttarakhand Information Commission and others ……Respondents Presence:

Mr. Parishit Saini and Mr. Tapan Singh, learned counsels for the appellant.

Mr. K. N. Joshi, learned DAG for the State/respondent no.2.

Mr. Dinesh Gahatori, learned counsel holding brief of Mr. I. P. Gairola, learned counsel for respondent no.3.

Coram: Hon’ble Ravindra Maithani, J.

Hon’ble Alok Mahra, J.

Hon’ble Ravindra Maithani, J. (Oral)

Challenge in this Special Appeal is made to the judgment dated

18.08.2017 passed in Writ Petition (M/S) No.1411 of 2017, Anant Singh Saini Vs. Uttarakhand Information Commission and others, by the learned Single Judge of this Court.

2. Information was sent to respondent no.1/Uttarakhand Information Commission (“the Commission”). It was served on dasti, but none appears for the Commission.

3. Heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the file.

4. The respondent no.3 did file a complaint against the petitioner before respondent no.2-District Magistrate, Haridwar (for short ‘DM’) on 13.06.2016, leveling various allegations against the petitioner. Subsequent to it, on 02.08.2