BADAR DURREZ AHMED, J.

( 1 ) THE Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has filed this writ petition praying for the setting aside of the order dated 13. 11. 2006 passed by the central Information Commission, New Delhi in an appeal under Section 19 (3) of the Right to Information Act, 2005 (hereinafter referred to as 'the RTI Act' ).

( 2 ) THE issue involved in the present petition relates to the disclosure of cut-off marks for the optional subjects as well as for general studies of the civil Services (Preliminary Examination), 2006, which was conducted by the UPSC. The disclosure of the separate cut-off marks in respect of each subject in the said examination for the different categories of candidates, namely, General, obc, SC, ST and Physically Handicapped is also in question. The question of disclosure of the individual marks obtained by each of the candidates as well as the disclosure of the model answers to each series of questions for all the subjects is also in issue. The respondent nos. 2 to 24 are candidates, who had appeared in the Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination, 2006 and had sought this information from the Central Public Information Officer (CPIO) of the UPS