RTI Act

Supreme Court held that details recording proceedings of disciplinary inquiries were personal information, outside the ambit of the RTI Act.  Right to Information Act, 2005,

The court was of the view that the information solicited by the appellant was of a private nature, protected under Section 8(1)(j) of the RTI Act and disclosing the same would not cause any public good. The court ordered that “The performance of an employee/officer in an organization is primarily a matter between the employee and the employer and normally those aspects are governed by the service rules which fall under the expression “personal information”, the disclosure of which has no relationship to any public activity or public interest.

Supreme Court’s judgment in Girish Ramchandra Deshpande v. CIC,: (2013) 1 S.C.C. 212.