1. The question of law posed in this writ petition is as to whether valued answer sheets of an examination returned to a public authority by the examiner entrusted with the task of valuation, is information exempted from disclosure under any of the provisions of the Right to Information Act, 2005 after the results of the examination are published. The question arises in the following set of facts:

2. The petitioner is a postman who appeared for the written examination for selection to the post of last grade officials in the Kerala Circle of the Postal Department of the Government of India on 24-4-2005. When results were published, the petitioner was informed that no one qualified in the examination from the Ernakulam Division. The petitioner applied for her mark list for the examination, which was supplied to her only after she filed O.A. No. 741/2005 before the Central Administrative Tribunal, Ernakulam Bench. From Ext P1 mark list, the petitioner learnt that she failed to obtain minimum marks in one of the three papers, she having scored only 37 marks for that paper. She scored 45 and 70 marks for papers I and II respectively. She therefore submitted Ext. P2 application