Hon’ble Supreme Court in the case of “Girish Ramchandra Deshpande vs. Cen.
Information Commr. & Ors.” [Special Leave Petition (Civil) No.
27734 of 2012) in CC 14781/2012], has
held that:
“The details
disclosed by a person in
his income tax
returns are “personal
information” which stand exempted
from disclosure under
clause (j) of Section 8(1)
of the RTI Act, unless involves
a larger public interest and the Central Public
Information Officer or
the State Public Information Officer or the Appellate
Authority is satisfied that the larger
public interest justifies the disclosure of such information.”[Para 14]