routine/general informations with respect to booking and supply of domestic and commercial LPG cylinders should be granted under RTI Act
What is not disputed here is that the routine/general informations
with respect to booking and supply of domestic and commercial LPG cylinders
with home delivery and without home delivery facilities and other related
information, are already available with M/s Rajesh Gas Service, an authorized
distributor of LPG. Moreover, it is obligatory on the part of every public
authorities to maintain all its records in the manner depicted under section 4 of the
Act. The indicated informations sought are general in nature. Thus, the question of
any commercial confidentiality, trade secrets or intellectual property and
opportunity of hearing to the distributor did not arise at all. As it cannot possibly
be termed to be a third-party, as defined under Section 2 (n) of the Act. To me, if
the arguments of the learned counsel for the petitioner-Corporation are accepted as
such, then no information is permissible, which would certainly nullify the aims
and objects of the Act. Therefore, the contrary arguments of the learned counsel
for the petitioner “stricto sensu” liable to be and are hereby repelled and impugned
order deserves to be and is hereby maintained in the obtaining circumstances of the
case.
Civil Writ Petition No.1338 of 2011 1
IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH
Date of Decision:- 24.1.2011
M/s Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. ...Petitioner
Versus
The Central Information Commission and others ...Respondents
