This is the second round of litigation between the same parties. In their earlier writ petition (W.P. No.1571 of 2008), the petitioners averred that for setting up an automobile plant at P.S. Singur, District Hooghly to manufacture a passenger vehicle (Nano) and sell it in India at a price of Rs.1,00,000/-, the first petitioner had entered into a Memorandum of Agreement (hereafter the MOA) with the Government of West Bengal and the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (hereafter the Corporation). According to the petitioners, information provided to the Government of West Bengal and the Corporation relating to manufacture of ‘Nano’ and as contained in the MOA, inter alia, “is of a commercially confidential nature” and such information was imparted in confidence on the understanding that it would not be made public and that any disclosure contemplated would be subject to the provisions of Section 11 of the Right to Information Act, 2005 (hereafter the Act). It was claimed that if such information is made public, it would affect the economic and financial viability of the small car project at Singur, and would be of immense value and a boon to the competitors of t