THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION NO.27227 OF 2011 DATED:27.10.2011 Between: Govind V. Shah … Petitioner And The Chief Information Commissioner Office of A.P. Information Commission HACA Bhavan, Hyderabad and others … Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION NO.27227 OF 2011 ORDER: Questioning the inaction of the respondents in performing the duties cast on them under the Right to Information Act, 2005 (for short, ‘the Act’), and in not furnishing the desired information, the present writ petition is filed. The petitioner seeks a consequential direction to the first respondent to initiate penalty proceedings against respondents 2 to 4 under Section 20 of the Act for the delay caused by them in furnishing the certified copies. The certified copies sought for by the petitioner are the occupancy rights certificate granted in Form–III in Case No.B/2514/2004, dated 29.7.2008. Learned Government Pleader for Revenue (Telangana Area) would submit that a copy of the document sought for by the petitioner has already been forwarded to him, and a photostat copy of the same is now being made available to the counsel for the petitioner. Sri G. Venkateswara Rao, learned counsel for the petitioner, acknowledges receipt of the photostat copy of the said document. With regards the direction sought to the first respondent to initiate penalty proceedings against respondents 2 to 4 Sri G. Venkateswara Rao, learned counsel for the petitioner, would submit that the petitioner would approach the first respondent in this regard, and the petitioner does not press for grant of such a relief in this writ petition. Leaving it open to the petitioner to approach the first respondent, for initiation of action against respondents 2 to 4 under the penal provisions of the Act, the writ petition is closed inasmuch as copies of the document sought for by the petitioner have already been forwarded to him by the respondents. No order as to costs. _______________________ RAMESH RANGANATHAN, , J 27.10.2011 bnr