The Rajasthan High Court has ruled that a wife can’t seek salary details of her husband. Wife had filed RTI application at the department where her husband works, to reveal his salary details. The department rejected the RTI application saying that the information sought was of personal nature.
Wife moved the high court and the high court upheld the State’s order to deny wife’s RTI application seeking details of salary paid to the husband, who was employed with the concerned department, stating that information relating to the performance of an employee or officer in an organization fell within “personal information”.
After hearing the contentions, the bench of Justice Kuldeep Mathur held that there was no illegality in the order of the State that refused the sought information to the petitioner that related to a third party.
The Court made a reference to the Supreme Court case of Girish Ramchandra Deshpande v. Central Information Commissioner & Ors., and affirmed that such information was primarily a matter between employer and employee, which was governed by service rules, and in the absence of any overriding public interest, disclosure of such information had no relation with any public activity or public interest.
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