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2015 (2) TMI 1156 - RAJASTHAN HIGH COURTRTI - whether the petitioner-trust can be allowed to contend that it is not covered by the Right to Information Act? - Held that:- Indisputably, the petitioner-trust is a body constituted under law made by the State Legislature, namely, Shri Sanwaliaji Temple Act, 1992, it has to be thus held as “public authority” in the meaning of Section 2(h) of the Right to Information Act, 2005. What the Chief Information Commissioner has directed in the present case is that the petitioner-trust should provide to respondent no.3 the copy of agenda of the Board meeting dated 01.12.2013, copy of resolution passed by the Board in the said meeting and copy of the proceedings registered of that day. None of these informations is covered by any of the exception clauses referred in list of exemption from disclosure of certain/specific kind of informations. The Information Commission has examined the matter thoroughly and has upheld the order passed by the appellate authority. This court, on analysis of the impugned order, does not find any infirmity in the order passed by the Information Commission. Neither the desired information can be said to fall in any of the exception clauses, nor can the petitioenr-trust claim to be not a public authority in the meaning of Section 2(h) of the Right to Information Act, 2005.
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