9 are submitted to the Commission by different political parties under the relevant law, and as such, those are categorized as information supplied by third-parties (a«a£u fr La«ÑL plhl¡qLªa abÉ). Since those falls under the category of information supplied by third-parties, the incumbent Officer of the Election Commission was bound under section 9(8) of the RTI Act, 2009 to seek consent of the political parties concern. Most of the political parties expressed their opinion in negative in respect of disclosure and supplying of those reports to the petitioners; therefore, the Commission, considering such opinion decided not to disclose and supply that information to the petitioners. However, some of the political parties expressed their opinion in positive in respect of disclosure and supplying of those reports to the petitioners; therefore, the Commission acted according to their opinion and disclosed and supplied those information to the petitioners. The Commission acted in accordance with the RTI Act, 2009 and thereby committed no illegality. It has also been stated that some of the registered political parties have submitted audit reports of their income and expenses to the Election Commission for the year 2012, 2013 and 2014 respectively along with the forwarding letters (Annexure-7series), where none of the political parties, so far, have made any specific request to the Commission to consider those audit reports as “confidential”. At the outset, Dr. Sharif Bhuiyan, the learned Advocate appearing with Mr. Tanim Hussain Shawon, the learned Advocate on behalf of the petitioners submits that the Right to Information Act,