- 1 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:49817 WP No. 35928 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BENGALURU DATED THIS THE 1ST DAY OF DECEMBER, 2025 BEFORE THE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SURAJ GOVINDARAJ WRIT PETITION NO. 35928 OF 2025 (GM-RES) BETWEEN: K.V PRASAD S/O LATE RAMA BHAT AGED ABOUT 55 YEARS R/AT KAYARPADY, ILANTHILA VILLAGE, BELTHANGADY TALUK D.K.DISTRICT-574 241. …PETITIONER (BY SRI. G L MOHAN MAIYA, ADVOCATE) AND: 1. THE JOINT REGISTRAR OF CO OP SOCIETIES MYSORE DIVISION, PUBLIC OFFICES BUILDING, NEW SAYYAJI RAO ROAD, MYSORE - 570 024. 2. THE DEPUTY REGISTRAR OF CO-OP SOCIETIES/PRO, MANGALORE DIVISION, JANATHA BAZAR BUILDING, GANAPATHI HIGH SCHOOL ROAD, MANGALORE- 575 001. …RESPONDENTS (BY SRI. B. RAVINDRANATH, AGA) Digitally signed by SHWETHA RAGHAVENDRA Location: HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA - 2 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:49817 WP No. 35928 of 2025 THIS WRIT PETITION IS FILED UNDER ARTICLE 226 OF THE CONSITUTION OF INDIA PRAYING TO DIRECT THE R-1 TO DISPOSE OF THE APPEAL FILED BY PETITIONER IN NO. JRM/J/APPEAL-06/2024-25 VIDE ANNEXURE-B FORTHWITH. THIS PETITION, COMING ON FOR PRELIMINARY HEARING, THIS DAY, ORDER WAS MADE THEREIN AS UNDER: CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SURAJ GOVINDARAJ ORAL ORDER 1. Learned AGA accepts notice for respondent Nos.1 and 2. 2. Petitioner is before this Court, seeking for the following relief: "(a) Issue a Writ of Mandamus directing the 1st respondent to dispose of the Appeal filed by petitioner in No.JRM/J/Appeal-06/2024-25 vide Annexure-B forthwith." 3. The grievance of the petitioner is that an application under the Right to Information Act had been filed before the second respondent which came to be rejected, against which an appeal was filed before the first respondent in JRM/J/Appeal-06/2024-25 which is yet to be considered by the first respondent. - 3 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:49817 WP No. 35928 of 2025 4. The submission of the learned counsel for the petitioner is that no action has been taken on the said appeal though it had been filed in September, 2024. In that view of the matter, I pass the following: ORDER (1) Writ petition is allowed. (2) Mandamus is issued directing the first respondent to dispose of the appeal bearing No.JRM/J/Appeal-06/2024-25 at Annexure-B as expeditiously as possible within the time frame prescribed under the Right to Information Act. SD/- (SURAJ GOVINDARAJ) JUDGE SBN List No.: 1 Sl No.: 29