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JUDGMENT

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REPORTABLE

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION

Special

Leave

Petition

(Civil)

No.

27734

of

2012

(@ CC 14781/2012)

Girish Ramchandra Deshpande

.. Petitioner

Versus

Cen. Information Commr. & Ors.

.. Respondents

O

R D

E R

1.

Delay condoned.

2.

We are, in this case, concerned with the question whether

the Central Information Commissioner (for short ‘the CIC’) acting

under the Right to Information Act, 2005 (for short ‘the RTI Act’)

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JUDGMENT

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was right in denying information regarding the third respondent’s

personal matters pertaining to his service career and also denying

the details of his assets and liabilities, movable and immovable

properties on the ground that the information sought for was

qualified to be personal information as defined in clause (j) of

Section 8(1) of the RTI Act.

3.

The petitioner herein had submitted an application on

27.8.2008 before the Regional Provident Fund Commissioner

(Ministry of Labour, Government of India) calling for various

details relating to third respondent, who was employed as an

Enforcement Officer in Sub-Regional Offic