Supreme Court of India
Chief Information Commr. and Another v. State of Manipur and Another
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2 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.
What the Court ordered
We are of the view that Sections 18 and 19 of the Act serve two different purposes and lay down two different E procedures and they provide two different remedies.
Judgment, page 21
From the headnote
RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT, 2005: ss. 7, 18(1) and 19(1) - No response to application seeking information uls 6 - Remedy - Applicant filing complaint uls 18 - Chief Information Commissioner directing the State Information Officer to furnish the required information c - Held: The applicant after having applied for information u/ s 6 and then not having received any reply thereto, it must be deemed that he has been refused the information - The situation is covered by s. 7 and the remedy is provided by way appeal u/s 19 - Applicant directed to file appeals u/s 19 in respect of the requests made
Authorities it was built on
- 1963 State of Uttar Pradesh v. Singhara Singh and Others
- 1988 Reliance Petrochemicals Ltd. v. Proprietors of Indian Express Newspapers, Bombay Pvt. Ltd. & Ors.
- 2004 Pepole's Union for Civil Liberties and Anr. v. Union of India and Ors.
- 1997 Shri Dinesh Trivedi, M.P. and Ors. v. Union of India and Ors.
Where later benches applied it
- 2024 Gene Campaign & Anr. v. Union of India & Ors.
- 2019 Yashwant Sinha & Ors. v. Central Bureau of Investigation through its Director & Anr.
Of those, 2 relied on
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