Civil Writ Petition No.3282 of 2010 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.3282 of 2010 Date of Decision:23.03.2011 Baldev Singh ......Petitioner Versus State Information Commission, Punjab and others .....Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MEHINDER SINGH SULLAR. Present: Mr.H.C.Arora, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr.Sartaj Singh Gill, Deputy Advocate General, Punjab, for respondent Nos.1 and 2. Mr.Kamaljit Singh, Advocate, for respondent No.3. **** M EHINDER S INGH S ULLAR , J.(oral) As is evident from the record that the information sought, was supplied to the petitioner. The State Information Commission(for brevity “the SIC”) accepted the explanation put-forth by the authorities for the delay in supplying the information and passed the order dated 24.04.2009(Annexure P-7), the operative part of which is, as under:- “In my view, this explanation is satisfactory and does not attract imposition of penalty. The complainant still feels that there were lies and false statement involved but there is no written documentary proof of that. Compensation of Rs.2,000/- under Section 19(1) is awarded to be paid by the Public Authority to the complainant within 15 days and to file compliance report in the Commission.” Ultimately, the matter was finally disposed of by the SIC by way of order dated 22.10.2009(Annexure P-10), which is in the following manner:- None present on behalf of complainant as well as respondent. “The respondent vide letter No.159/Bill Clerk dated 22.10.2009 received by Civil Writ Petition No.3282 of 2010 2 fax has informed that payment of compensation of Rs.2,000/- has been made to the complainant through DD No.725253 dated 01.10.2009 in view of this case is closed and disposed of. Copies of the order be sent to the parties.” Meaning thereby, it stands proved on the record that the indicated information has already been supplied and compensation of Rs.2,000/- has also been paid to the petitioner. Thus, as the SIC has rightly disposed of the matter, therefore, no ground for interference in the impugned order(Annexure P-10) is made out, in exercise of writ jurisdiction of this Court in the obtaining circumstances of the case. In the light of aforesaid reasons, as there is no merit, therefore, the instant writ petition is hereby dismissed as such. March 23, 2011 (MEHINDER SINGH SULLAR) seema JUDGE