| COURT: | Bombay High Court |
| CORAM: | R. M. Savant J |
| SECTION(S): | RTI Act |
| GENRE: | Other Laws |
| CATCH WORDS: | disclosure, Right to Information Act 2005 |
| COUNSEL: | Jabbar Shaikh, Ravi Kadam |
| DATE: | June 11, 2015 (Date of pronouncement) |
| DATE: | June 15, 2015 (Date of publication) |
| AY: | - |
| FILE: | Click here to view full post with file download link |
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| RTI Act: Disclosure of income-tax returns of a politician on the ground that it is necessary for “purity of elections” and “probity in public life” is not possible as it is not in “public interest” | |
The details disclosed by a person in his Income Tax Returns is personal information which has been exempted from disclosure under clause (j) of Section 8(1) of the said Act, unless involved a larger public and the CPIO and or State Public Information Officer or the Appellate Authority is satisfied that the larger public interest justifies the disclosure of such information
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