Manjinder Singh v. State of Punjab and Others
Case brief
What is this about?
CWP-8035-2025 (O&M), High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh, HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI J., decided 09.07.2025. Blanket rejection by Information Commissioner's order dated 08.01.2025 of all of petitioner Manjinder Singh's RTI/information applications (concerning speed governors in passenger buses and permits of unlicensed buses) challenged; one-year debarment held not sustainable as no misconduct proved and set aside; petitioner permitted to file fresh applications, with Commissioner required to provide permissible information or record detailed reasons under the Right to Information Act, 2005. Keywords: Right to Information Act, 2005; Information Commissioner; information applications; debarment; public interest; speed governors; permits; transparency.
What did the court decide?
Petition disposed of with liberty to the petitioner to file appropriate information-seeking applications afresh before the Information Commissioner who passed the impugned order; the Information Commissioner requested to examine those applications and either direct the appropriate department to provide the information sought or pass orders recording detailed reasons for non-provision under the Right to Information Act, 2005; the one-year debarment direction and any direction to ignore the petitioner's applications held unsustainable and set aside; pending civil miscellaneous application(s), if any, disposed of.