JUDGMENT :

VINEET KOTHARI, J.

1. This Letters Patent Appeal is directed against the order of learned Single Judge dated 16.7.2015 whereby the learned Single Judge was pleased to dismiss Special Civil Application No. 7187 of 2014 filed by the Petitioner-Appellant Mr. Vinubhai Haribhai Patel (Malavia), Surat against the concerned authorities of the Income Tax Department under the Right to Information Act, 2005 (‘the RTI Act’ for short) and the private parties-Respondent Nos. 4 to 8.

2. The learned Single Judge held that the Petitioner is not entitled to get the information in the form of his Income Tax Returns, Status of Agriculturists, disclosure as Business Income or not etc. and from the concerned Authorities of the Income Tax Department under provisions of the RTI Act with respect to private Respondent M/s. Tarunkumar Kantilal Raval and others with whom the present Petitioner has some litigation with regard to the land in question, which the Petitioner claims to have purchased and was again sold by the same Seller in favour of private Respondents also who claimed to be the Agriculturists under a Will. The Petitioner came before the learned Single Judge in the writ petition filed by