authority to take any such steps as may be necessary to secure compliance with the provisions of the Act, including (i) by providing access to information in a particular form. It has power to require the public authorities by publishing certain information or categories of information, by making necessary changes to its practices in relation to the maintenance, management and destruction of records and by requiring the public authority to compensate the complainant for any loss or other detriment suffered; impose any of the penalties provided under the Act even to reject the application. For that purpose, the Information Commission shall have power as vested in a Civil Court for summoning and enforcing the attendance of persons and compel them to give oral or written evidence on oath and to produce the documents or things, requiring the discovery and inspection of documents, receiving evidence on affidavit, requisitioning any public record or copies from any court or office, issuing summons for examination of witnesses or documents and any other matter which may be prescribed, which means that the Information Commission, as the appellate authority, has the power as a Civil Court, to require the public authority, to produce all the documents and records for its inspection or to be produced before it for inspection or examination. The words found in clause (a) of sub-Section 8 of Section 19 is “to take any such steps as may be necessary to secure compliance with the object of the Act”. When the right to information is recognised as an important right to citizens to secure compliance of the provisions of the Act, the words in clause (a) implies that the Information Commission has the power more than what is demonstrated under the provision.
