SANJIV KHANNA, J.:

1. The petitioners herein have challenged orders passed by the Central Information Commission (hereinafter also referred to as CIC, for short) under the Right to Information Act, 2005 (hereinafter referred to as the RTI Act, for short). 2. The challenge to the impugned orders involves interpretation of Sections 8(1), 18 and 19 of the RTI Act, which read as under:- ?Section 8. Exemption from disclosure of information.- (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, there shall be no obligation to give any citizen,-

(a) Information, disclosure of which would prejudicially affect the sovereignty and integrity of India, the security, strategic, scientific or economic interests of the State, relation with foreign State or lead to incitement of an offence;

(b) Information which has been expressly forbidden to be published by any court of law or tribunal or the disclosure of which may constitute contempt of court;

(c) Information, the disclosure of which would cause a breach of privilege of Parliament or the State Legislature;

(d) Information including commercial confidence, trade secretes or intellectual property, the disclosure of which would harm the com