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Office Notes,

reports, orders

or proceedings

SL.

Date or directions COURT’S OR JUDGE’S ORDERS

No.

and Registrar’s

order with

Signatures

WPMS/ 1424/ 2026

Hon’ble Manoj Kumar Tiwari, J.

Mr. Apoorv Nautiyal, Advocate for the

petitioner.

Ms. Swati Verma, Brief Holder for the

State.

2. Petitioner has challenged order dated

01.04.2026, passed by Chief Information

Commissioner in Appeal No. 44495/2025-26

(Vijendra Kumar Vs. Public Information Officer

and others). By the said order, appeal filed by

petitioner seeking information in respect of

respondent No. 4, was dismissed by holding that

personal information in respect of third party

cannot be given without his consent.

3. The application made by petitioner before

Public Information Officer is enclosed as

Annexure-1 to the writ petition. Perusal thereof

reveals that petitioner had asked for copy of the

NOC issued by Regional Director of Education

in favour of respondent No. 4 at the time of her

appointment as Assistant Teacher in a

Government Junior High School.

4. Petitioner had asked for other information

also in respect of respondent No. 4, namely,

copy of attendance register, copy of salary

register, copy of duty chart in respect of

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teachers, copy of service book of respondent

No. 4, action taken by Department against

respondent No. 4 on the report submitted by

SIT, copy of caste certificate submitted by

respondent No. 4 at the time of her appointment.

5. Before State Information Commission,

respondent No. 4 appeared and submitted that

her matrimonial dispute is pending before the

Court and petitioner is harassing her by not only

asking for personal information under Right to

Information Act, 2005, but by making false and

vexatious complaints to different authorities,

thus causing mental harassment to her.

6. This Court do not find any reason to

interfere with the order passed by Chief

Information Commissioner.

7. Section 11 of Right to Information Act,

2005 deals with third party information and

provides that whenever such request is received,

Central Public Information Officer or the State

Public Information Officer, as the case may be,

shall give a written notice to the third party

within five days of receiving such request, if

such third party objects to the prayer for

information, then Central Public Information

Officer or State Public Information Officer, as

the case may be, shall take a decision whether

or not to disclose the information.

8. Even otherwise also, personal information

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regarding a person, disclosure of which has no

relationship to any public activity or interest, or

which would cause unwarranted invasion of the

privacy of the individual concerned, is

exempted from disclosure under Section 8(1(j)

of Right to Information Act.

9. Since the information sought by petitioner

was in the nature of personal information,

therefore Chief Information Commissioner was

justified in dismissing petitioner’s appeal.

10. Thus there is no scope for interference.

The writ petition fails and is dismissed.

(Manoj Kumar Tiwari, J.)

20.05.2026

Mahinder/