HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION No.15028 of 2010 Date: March 16, 2011 Between: G. Ranavir Reddy … Petitioner And 1. The State of A.P., rep. by its Principal Secretary, Medical & Health Department & 2 others. … Respondents * * * HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION No.15028 of 2010 ORDER: The complaint of the petitioner in this case is that the respondent-authorities are not furnishing the information sought by him as to the appointment of the third respondent as the Commissioner of the Andhra Pradesh Vaidya Vidhana Parishad, Hyderabad, in spite of his applications dated 26.12.2009 and 07.5.2010 made under the Right to Information Act, 2005. 2. In their separate counters, the Deputy Secretary to the Government, Health, Medical and Family Welfare Department, Government of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad and the Commissioner, A.P. Vaidya Vidhana Parishad, Hyderabad, respondents 1 and 2, stated that the petitioner’s applications were not in accordance with the procedure prescribed in the Right to Information Act, 2005 and therefore, the same could not be treated as applications made under the said Act inviting the application of the other provisions thereof. 3. Section 6 of the Right to Information Act, 2005 provides that a person desiring to obtain any information under the said Act has to make a request in writing or through electronic means in English or Hindi or in the official language of the area in which the application is being made along with such fee as may be prescribed, duly specifying the particulars of the information sought by him. In the present case, the applications dated 26.12.2009 and 07.5.2010 addressed by the petitioner do not indicate that he paid the prescribed fee for obtaining the information sought. Relevant to note, in exercise of the powers conferred by Section 27 of the Right to Information Act, 2005, the Central Government promulgated the Right to Information (Regulation of fee and costs) Rules, 2005 which require a person making an application under Section 6 of the Act to pay application fee of Rs.10/- by way of cash against proper receipt or by demand draft/bankers cheque payable to the Accounts Officer of the public authority concerned. 4. In the present case, the petitioner failed to make an application in the prescribed format. Therefore, he cannot complain of any violation of the provisions of the Right to Information Act, 2005. Once he failed to pay the requisite fee for seeking the information, as prescribed in Section 6 and the Rules of 2005, his application cannot be treated as one made under the said Act. 5. The writ petition is therefore devoid of merit. This order shall however not preclude the petitioner from making an application afresh in the proper and prescribed format to the authority concerned for furnishing the information sought by him. 6. Subject to the above observation, the writ petition is dismissed. No order as to costs. ___________________ SANJAY KUMAR, J Date: March 16, 2011. BSB