Supreme Court of India

Chief Information Commr. and Another v. State of Manipur and Another

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Reported as [2011] 13 S.C.R. 505
Bench Asok Kumar Ganguly and Gyan Sudha Misra JJ.
Decided 12 December 2011

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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

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 relied on

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