Firstpost: Chandigarh: Thursday,
July 21, 2016.
The Punjab
State Information Commission (SIC) has held that Punjab Cricket Association
would be considered a 'Public Authority' under various sections of the RTI Act.
S S Channy,
Chief Information Commissioner, Punjab, said here today the Commission in a
complaint case filed in 2007 had held the PCA to be a Public Authority within
the definition of Section 2(h) of the RTI Act in an order dated August 19,
2008.
Channy,
according to an official release, said the order was challenged by the
Association in a writ petition.
The writ
petition was dismissed by a single judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court
in a judgment dated May 9, 2011.
The same year
the PCA filed a LPA (appeal), he said.
"The
appeal was decided by the high court on December 12, 2013 wherein it set aside
the orders of the State Information Commission and the single judge of the high
court.
The matter
was remanded back to the SIC for fresh decision," he said.
Channy said the
full bench of the State Information Commission has now held that the "PCA
squarely fits into the parameters set forth in the judgment of the Supreme
Court to qualify within the definition of a Public Authority under Section 2(h)
(d) (i) of the RTI Act."