Income-Tax Returns filed by elected representatives(MPs/MLAs) is exempted from disclosure by "privacy clause" of section 8(1)(j) of the RTI Act,2005.Copies of the same cannot be furnished for comparing the income disclosed in ITRs with disclosures made in election affidavit filed with Election Commission under Representation of the People Act,1950

Income-Tax Returns filed by elected representatives(MPs/MLAs) is exempted from disclosure by "privacy clause" of section 8(1)(j) of the RTI Act,2005.Copies of the same cannot be furnished for comparing the income

disclosed in ITRs with disclosures made in election affidavit filed with Election Commission under Representation of the People Act,1950

[2015] 58 taxmann.com 147 (Bombay)

HIGH COURT OF BOMBAY

Shailesh Gandhi

v.

Central Information Commission, New Delhi