HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW WRIT - C No. - 8294 of 2025 Court No. - 2 HON'BLE MRS. SANGEETA CHANDRA, J. HON'BLE BRIJ RAJ SINGH, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri Shikhar Anand, learned counsel for respondent no.1, learned Standing Counsel for the State- respondent and Sri Sampurna Nand Shukla, learned counsel for respondent no.3. 2. This petition has been filed with the following main prayer:- "(i) Issue a writ order or direction in the nature of mandamus commanding thereby to the opposite parties, specially opposite party No. I to grant an urgent hearing upon second appeal dated-09-05-2025 filed by the petitioner through registered post before him and decide the same expeditiously within stipulated period as framed by this Hon'ble Court, after hearing to the petitioner, in the interest of justice." 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that aggrieved by the order passed on petitioner's Right to Information Application, petitioner has filed a second appeal through registered post before respondent no.1, which has not been decided till date. 4. Sri Shikhar Anand, learned counsel appearing on behalf of respondent no.1, on the basis of instructions, states that the second appeals are filed online on the portal of the State Information Commission. The petitioner has allegedly filed his second appeal through registered posts and the copy of the second appeal, which has been annexed by the petitioner with this writ Versus Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Ashok Kumar Yadava, Deepa Mishra Counsel for Respondent(s) : Shikhar Anand, C.S.C., Sampurna Nand Shukla Shiv Shankar Singh .....Petitioner(s) State Information Commission Thru. Chairman, Second Appellate Authority And 2 Others .....Respondent(s) petition as Annexure-1, should also be seen by this Court. 5. We have gone through Annexure-1 to the writ petition and we find that it is a letter addressed to the State Information Commission, mentioning the same as a Second Appeal under Section 19(3) of the Right to Information Act. It is apparently not in the format prescribed. No direction, as prayed for, can be given. 6. The writ petition stands dismissed. August 28, 2025 Sachin WRIC No. 8294 of 2025 2 (Brij Raj Singh,J.) (Mrs. Sangeeta Chandra,J.) Digitally signed by :- SACHIN MEHROTRA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench