(1) wp2001-11 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD WRIT PETITION NO. 2001 OF 2011 Suresh Gangadhar Dharasurkar PETITIONER VERSUS The Hon'ble Chief Secretary, Govt. of Maharashtra, and another RESPONDENTS .... Petitioner - Party-in-Person present. Mrs. A.V. Gondhalekar, A.G.P. for the respondent/State. .... CORAM : D.B. BHOSALE & M.T. JOSHI, JJ. DATED : 21st APRIL, 2011 ORAL ORDER (PER - M.T. JOSHI, J.) : 1. Heard the petitioner in person and learned A.G.P. for the State. 2. The petitioner's grievance is that since he has been removed from service on the basis of exparte enquiry in the Court of Law, he is required to file certain documents relied in the enquiry conducted by the respondent No2. Therefore, he made an application for the copies of the same, under the Right to Information Act. However, the Public (2) wp2001-11 Information Officer merely supplied copies of some of the documents and replied that rest of the documents are not available being old. Therefore, by the present writ petition, he submits that direction be issued to the respondent No. 2 to issue the copies of the documents asked by the petitioner as per his application dated 07-12-2010 and 22-01-2011 (Exh-F and Exh-G, respectively). 3. The reply of the Public Information Officer of the respondent No.1 (Exh-H to the petition) shows that the copy of the Inspection Report in respect of M/s Suchak Paper Mill, Kalyan was supplied alongwith the said forwarding letter. However, the rest of the documents being very old, were found missing and, therefore, copies thereof could not be delivered. 4. The letter from the Appellate Authority (Exh-I to the petition) shows that the appeal was declared as premature as the information was supplied on 06-01-2011 and the appeal was filed on 27-12-2010. 5. The allegations of the petitioner are that (3) wp2001-11 the documents are, in fact, suppressed and this amounts to tampering of the record as the said record was called earlier in many proceedings. 6. With all sympathy with the petitioner, the factual aspects cannot be gone into in the present writ petition. The letter from the Information Officer at Exhibit-H shows that the documents were not found inspite of search taken by the office. In the circumstances, the present writ petition can be disposed of with the following direction. 7. The petitioner is at liberty to make an application afresh to the Public Information Officer of the respondent No.1 after period of one month. The office of the respondent No.1 may communicate afresh about the finding of the documents to him, upon receipt of such application. The petition is accordingly disposed of. [M.T. JOSHI, J.] [D.B. BHOSALE, J.] NPJ/wp2001-11 (4) wp2001-11