https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=278597 Question papers and model answers for a super-speciality entrance examination were held exempt from disclosure under the RTI Act because their release would undermine the merit-based selection process. The disclosure request was not treated like cases involving ordinary examinations where papers or suggested answers were already public or openly sold after the test. Given the limited pool of multiple-choice questions, few seats, and the risk that prior papers would encourage memorisation rather than assessment, the examining body's concern about harm to the competitive process was accepted. The information was also protected by statutory exemptions on intellectual property, fiduciary confidence, copyright, and public interest grounds, so refusal of disclosure was upheld. en-us Mon, 28 May 2012 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 13 Feb 2019 17:59:32 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=278597 Question papers and model answers for a super-speciality entrance examination were held exempt from disclosure under the RTI Act because their release would undermine the merit-based selection process. The disclosure request was not treated like cases involving ordinary examinations where papers or suggested answers were already public or openly sold after the test. Given the limited pool of multiple-choice questions, few seats, and the risk that prior papers would encourage memorisation rather than assessment, the examining body's concern about harm to the competitive process was accepted. The information was also protected by statutory exemptions on intellectual property, fiduciary confidence, copyright, and public interest grounds, so refusal of disclosure was upheld. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 28 May 2012 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=278597