Dismissed¶¶39
Vijay Ratanchand Katariya v. Public Information Officer and Assistant Director and Others
Bombay HCWP/10262/2023
Case brief
AI extract
What is this about?
RTI Act 2005; third-person request for personal information of individuals; public interest not stated in application; refusal of information by Public Information Officer/Assistant Director; Article 227 Constitution of India supervisory jurisdiction; writ petitions dismissed without costs; Bombay High Court Aurangabad; Katariya v. Public Information Officer; 2025:BHC-AUG:36603.
What did the court decide?
The petitioner, being a third person who did not specifically state in his applications whether any public interest was involved, is not supposed to ask for the information of individuals under the Right to Information Act, 2005. ¶¶37