caw1017-11.doc 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPLICATION NO.1017 OF 2011 IN WRIT PETITION NO.9332 OF 2010 Ratnagiri Zilla Sahakari Krishi Gramin Bahuudeshiya Vikas Bank Maryadit, Ratnagiri .. Applicant Versus State Information Commission (Konkan Division) and Anr. .. Respondents CORAM : S.C.DHARMADHIKARI, J. DATE : 10th JUNE 2011. P.C.: 1] Heard both sides. The interim reliefs granted by this Court cannot be vacated on the material that is annexed to the civil application, simply because it is now pointed out that the Information Officer has addressed a letter to the Registrar/ Commissioner, Cooperative Societies, MS, Pune dated 20th April 2010. That letter is being relied upon by the petitioner’s Advocate and he submits that earlier communication of 8th caw1017-11.doc 2 February 2006 would not be applicable in the light of the clarification. In these circumstances, finding that the issue raised is arguable, the request to vacate interim order cannot be granted. However, it is clarified that it would be open for the applicant in this application to file substantive proceedings to impugn the communication which is now relied upon and raise a larger challenge as to whether such of the cooperative societies who take aid from the Government would be covered by the Right to Information Act, 2005 or not, which is a Parliamentary Statute and subsequent enactment exclusively dealing with providing information to the general public. 2] Keeping all such challenges and contentions in that behalf, open, the civil application is disposed of. (S.C.DHARMADHIKARI, J)