Allowing a petition preferred by the Gujarat High Court administration, a single bench of Justice Biren Vaishnav quashed the order of the State Information Commission requiring the administration to disclose certain third party, personal information sought by a judicial officer under Right to Information Act.The bench reiterated that information which is “personal" in nature and which does. Allowing a petition …
The Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh High Court on Saturday reiterated that the "performance of an employee or an officer in an organisation is primarily a matter between the employee and the employer and falls within the meaning of personal information." While the Public Information Officer of KVS on 1 March 2014 declined to provide the information on the ground …
The Right to Information bleeds now with a requirement being added by a judicial order much beyond the original scheme of the Act and that is, 'Disclosure of Interest in Personal Information sought under the RTI Act would be necessary'. The history helps to unfold the tread marks and a bare look at the long title and preamble of the …
The Supreme Court’s November 13 judgment on Right to Information reduced the scope of ‘information’ and widened that of ‘restrictions’. Here, it needs to be recalled that the Supreme Court’s 2012 judgment in Girish Ramchandra Deshpande v. Central Information Commissioner was hitherto being used as a precedent by the Department of Personnel and Training and various CPIOs to deny information …
