TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
2010 (1) TMI 620
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....itioner company was directed to supply an information asked for by the second respondent as the information sought for did not come under the exempted category provided under Section 8 of the Right to Information Act, 2005 (for short RTI Act). The writ petition was admitted on 14-2-2008. Pending the writ petition, an interim stay was granted by this court. 3. It is seen from the records that the petitioner was an incorporated company in the year 1977 under the Companies Act, 1956. The petitioner company was entrusted with the task of rendering assistance to entrepreneurs setting up Information Technology and ITES organisations. They claimed to have developed so far nine IT parks in Tamil Nadu. 4. The second respondent herein....
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....on. The Managing Director of the petitioner company appeared and informed that whenever officials of Elcot have gone and set up IT parks, the cost of lands shoots up by 10 to 30 times. In one such place at Madurai South Taluk, the cost of one acre land was earlier less than Rs. 5 lakhs. But today, in the vicinity of the IT park set up therein, the land costs have gone up by Rs. 50 lakhs to Rs. 1.5 Crores per acre. Similar was their experience in the other places. The moment they make a pilot survey, the real estate brokers enhance the price of the lands. The RTI Act should not be used for unlawfully enriching some one by extracting the business secret from a Government company. 7. The Commission should ascertain the credentials of t....
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....cientific or economic interests or the State, relation with foreign State or lead to incitement of an offence; ......... (d) information including commercial confidence, trade secrets or intellectual property, the disclosure of which would harm the competitive position of a third party, unless the competent authority is satisfied that larger public interest warrants the disclosure of such information; .......... (i) cabinet papers including records of deliberations of the Council of Ministers, Secretaries and other officers : Provided that the decisions of Council of Ministers, the reasons thereof, and the material on the basis of which the decisions were taken shall....
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.... the meaning of Section 2(h) of the RTI Act. The term "Right to Information" is very widely defined under Section 2(j) of the RTI Act, which reads as follows : "2(j)" right to information" means the right to information accessible under this Act which is held by or under the control of any public authority and includes the right to- (i) inspection of work, documents, records; (ii) taking notes, extracts or certified copies of documents or records; (iii) taking certified samples of material; (iv) obtaining information in the form of diskettes, floppies, tapes, video cassettes or in any other electronic mode or through printouts where such....
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....of the land acquisition Acts (either Central Act or State enactments). In such cases, any notification issued for acquiring lands are always a matter of public record. A citizen, who solely survives on the existence of the said land, if apprehensive about the land being taken away by some other authority, is entitled to know whether those lands are to be acquired by such authority so that, they can legitimately object to the acquisition of their lands on grounds which are available to them under law. 17. The only ground taken by the petitioner ELCOT is that certain persons with private interest may speculate on the land cost, which may ultimately boost the price of the land. Under the existing law relating to the land acquisitions, ....