Appellate authority under RTI Act can issue direction to such public authority to take any of those steps as are suitable to coerce the persons having information to abide by directions issued under the RTI Act
In paragraph 44, this Full Bench of Delhi High Court,
from the preamble of the RTI Act, also notes that it is passed
because 'democracy requires an informed citizenry and
transparency of information which are vital to its functioning and
also to contain corruption and hold Governments and their
instrumentalities accountable to the governed'. It restricts the
right to information to citizens vide Section 3. Citizen seeking
information need not give any reasons for such
information need not give any reasons for such demand & there
is no requirement of scrutiny into his locus standi. I find that
when the procedure to exercise the right to information is
statutorily prescribed & its breach is to be redressed exclusively
by the “forums” created thereunder, the “execution” of such
adjudicated entitlement against unwilling establishment by
invoking all available legal avenues is the deliberate measure &
an integral part of the scheme of RTI Act
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
WRIT PETITION NO. 3650 OF 2012
1. Kausa Education & Charitable Trust
V/s.
1. Maharashtra State Information Commission,
CORAM : B.P. DHARMADHIKARI, J.
