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2025 DAILYLAW 14669 (JHR)

THE STATE OF JHARKHAND THROUGH PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER- CUM- SUB DIVISIONAL OFFICER v. THE CHIEF INFORMATION COMMISSIONER, JHARKHAND STATE INFORMATION COMMISSION

C.M.P./486/2024 · 2025-08-08

Rajesh Shankar

Writ Petition (Civil)body2025

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2025:JHHC:22705 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI C.M.P. No. 486 of 2024 --- The State of Jharkhand through the Public Information Officer-cum-Sub-Divisional Officer, Chas, District- Bokaro … … Petitioner Versus 1. The Chief Information Commissioner, Jharkhand State Information Commission, Ranchi 2. Hari Nandan Singh, son of Late Budhan Singh, resident of Qr. No. 2363, Sector-4/D, Bokaro Steel City, Bokaro …. … Opp. Parties CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJESH SHANKAR For the Petitioner : Mr. Gaurav Raj, A.C. to A.A.G.-II For the O.P. No. 2 : in person Order No. 05 Dated: 08.08.2025 The present C.M.P. has been filed for restoration of W.P.(C) No. 1990 of 2022 which stood dismissed for non- compliance of order dated 22.02.2023. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner had earlier filed C.M.P. No. 790 of 2023 seeking restoration of the aforesaid writ petition which was ordered to be restored vide order dated 02.02.2024 passed by a Co- ordinate Bench of this Court subject to the condition that the defects pointed out by the office in the writ petition would be removed within a period of three weeks, failing which the said order of restoration was not to be given effect to. It is further submitted that since some of the defects lying in the writ petition could not be removed within the said period of three weeks from the date of passing of the order, the writ petition could not be restored. Under the said circumstance, the petitioner has filed the present C.M.P. 2025:JHHC:22705 3. Having heard learned counsel for the parties and for the reasons stated in the present C.M.P., W.P.(C) No. 1990 of 2022 is restored to its original file and stage, subject to the condition that the petitioner removes the remaining defect(s) pointed out by the office by 26.08.2025 and pays a cost of Rs.5,000/- to the opposite party no. 2 within the said period. 4. The present C.M.P. is, accordingly, disposed of. (Rajesh Shankar, J.) Ritesh/