https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=261414 Income tax returns of a third party were treated as personal information protected by Section 8(1)(j) of the Right to Information Act, 2005, and disclosure was not available as a matter of right. The Court held that such records may be disclosed only on an objectively recorded satisfaction that larger public interest overrides the privacy exemption. The petitioner's reliance on cross-checking election affidavits and broad allegations of corruption did not establish any specific public interest sufficient to justify disclosure, and the refusal to furnish the returns was upheld. en-us Thu, 11 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 10 Jul 2015 20:23:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=261414 Income tax returns of a third party were treated as personal information protected by Section 8(1)(j) of the Right to Information Act, 2005, and disclosure was not available as a matter of right. The Court held that such records may be disclosed only on an objectively recorded satisfaction that larger public interest overrides the privacy exemption. The petitioner's reliance on cross-checking election affidavits and broad allegations of corruption did not establish any specific public interest sufficient to justify disclosure, and the refusal to furnish the returns was upheld. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 11 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=261414