New Delhi: Documents submitted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with the application for getting a passport and its renewal, cannot be disclosed as these are “personal information”, the CIC has held.
The case relates to an RTI application filed by G.M. Chauhan, a member of the Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee, seeking copies of the material submitted by Modi for obtaining his first passport and subsequent renewal or fresh application for obtaining a diplomatic passport.
Chief Information Commissioner R.K. Mathur has said in his order that Chauhan could not substantiate the larger public interest for the disclosure.
Chauhan had argued that since the information sought relates to the public life of the former chief minister of Gujarat and the prime minister, its disclosure is in public interest and outweighs any “possible harm” caused to the interest of a third party (Modi).
