#RTI

Gujarat High Court ruled that information obtained via the RTI Act remains private and cannot be treated as a public document under Section 74 of the Evidence Act, restricting its use as secondary evidence. This limits parties’ ability to rely on RTI disclosures in civil proceedings.

You filed a Right to Information application, waited out the thirty days, and got back a single line: the information is "personal information" and stands exempted under Section 8(1)(j) of the Right to Information Act, 2005. No reasons, no explanation, just a statutory reference.