Air Force Educational and Cultural Society v. Sh. Ramesh N. Gandhi
Case brief
What is this about?
W.P.(C) 12510/2009, Delhi High Court, decided 16.03.2026 by Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav, J. Petition by Air Force Educational and Cultural Society against Central Information Commission order dated 01.08.2008 (disclosure of employee information to RTI applicant Sh. Ramesh N. Gandhi; RTI application of 2006). Stay of 20.10.2009 made absolute on 14.12.2012; respondent unrepresented for sixteen-plus years. Petition disposed of on grounds of age and non-prosecution: stay reiterated, deposit refundable with interest, question of law left open, liberty to seek revival. No statutory provisions or precedents cited.
What did the court decide?
Writ petition disposed of without decision on merits; order dated 14.12.2012 making the stay on the impugned CIC order absolute reiterated; refund of any petitioner deposit with interest on due verification; question of law left open; liberty to respondent to request revival.