IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO. 15151 OF 2009 DATE OF DECISION: September 25, 2009. Parties Name Jagdish Raj Raja ..PETITIONER VERSUS The Public Information Officer and others ...RESPONDENTS CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JASBIR SINGH PRESENT: Mr. Ravi Sharma, Advocate, for the petitioner JASBIR SINGH, J.(oral) ORDER. This writ petition has been filed to lay challenge to the orders dated July 11, 2008 (P-2), September 4, 2008 (P-3) and January 29, 2009 (P-5), vide which application of the petitioner to seek information under the Right to Information Act, 2005, was not decided , as per prayer made by him. It is apparent from the record that the petitioner, by moving an application under the above said Act, prayed that he be supplied copy of the audio recording of the proceedings of the meetings of Municipal Corporation, Jalandhar, held on September 10, 2007, November 23, 2007 and March 24, 2008. His application was declined on the ground that the Corporation is not maintaining any record of audio tracks, however, the CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO. 15151 OF 2009 -2- Stenographers for their own convenience may be doing it, so that they do not miss any part of the proceeding. Petitioner went in appeal, which was dismissed. He went to the State Information Commissioner, who dismissed the complaint by observing as under: “The respondent, on behalf of the PIO, makes a written submission, with a copy of the Appellant, which is taken on record file in which it has been stated that officially only typed proceedings are prepared and maintained by Municipal Corporation, Jalandhar. The approved typed minutes of the proceedings of each meeting of the House are regularly circulated to the petitioner in the capacity as the Councilor of Ward No. 36 of M.C. Jalandhar. It has further been stated that proper reply has been supplied to the Appellant at all stages and no official record has been denied to him. Rather, copies of the approved proceedings of the Corporation House are regularly provided to the petitioner in his capacity as Councilor. It is directed that the Corporation may consider the feasibility of not allowing the Stenographers to take personal tape records or Audio System in the House of the Corporation, if possible.” Order passed is perfectly justified. Once it has come on record that the Corporation is not maintaining any Audio Recording, then it is not possible to supply the same to the petitioner. Dismissed. (JASBIR SINGH) JUDGE September 25, 2009. DKC