IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE S.SIRI JAGAN THURSDAY, THE 23RD AUGUST 2007 / 1ST BHADRA 1929 WP(C).No. 25735 of 2007(L) ---------------------------------------- PETITIONER: ------------------ PRINCIPAL, SREE NARAYANA COLLEGE, CHATHANNOOR REPRESENTED BY JEEVAN LAL. BY ADV. SRI.A.N.RAJAN BABU SRI.P.GOPALAKRISHNAN (MVA) SMT.K.SUNITHA VINOD RESPONDENTS: --------------------- 1. STATE OF KERALA REPRESENTED BY CHIEF SECRETARY, GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. 2. THE STATE INFORMATION COMMISSION, KERALA REPRESENTED BY ITS SECRETARY, PUNNAN ROAD, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. 3. THE REGISTRAR, UNIVERSITY OF KERALA, UNIVERSITY BUILDING, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. BY ADV. SRI.M.AJAY, SC, STATE INFORMATION COMMN GOVERNMENT PLEADER SRI. I.V. PRAMOD THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 23/08/2007, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: S. SIRI JAGAN, J. ------------------------------- W.P.(C)NO.25735 OF 2007 ----------------------------------- DATED THIS THE 23rd DAY OF AUGUST, 2007 JUDGMENT The petitioner is an aided private college. They have filed this writ petition for a declaration that aided private colleges affiliated to the University is not a public authority as defined in Section 2(h) of the Right to Information Act, 2005. This question was considered by me in a batch of writ petitions and held that the aided private colleges do come within the definition of 'public authority' as defined in the Act, in Varghese Vs. M.G. University (2007(3) KLT 486). In the above circumstance, following the said decision I dismiss this writ petition. S. SIRI JAGAN, JUDGE Acd