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Tax returns of public servants — Delhi HC

A person's income-tax returns are confidential personal information; third-party RTI access barred under §8[1][j]. ITRs are §8(1)(j) personal info; third-party.

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 +{{htmlmetatags>metatag-keywords=(Tax returns of public servants — Delhi HC,High Court of Delhi RTI,RTI §8,income tax,tax returns,§8(1)(j),Delhi HC,confidentiality)&metatag-description=(A person's income-tax returns are confidential personal information; third-party RTI access barred under §8[1][j]. ITRs are §8(1)(j) personal info; third-party.)}}
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 +====== Tax returns of public servants — Delhi HC ======
 +
 +<WRAP center round info 95%>
 +**High Court of Delhi** · 2020-01-01 · Citation awaited
 +</WRAP>
 +
 +//ITRs are §8(1)(j) personal info; third-party access requires clear public-interest showing + §8(2) balancing.//
 +
 +===== Case details =====
 +
 +^ Court | High Court of Delhi |
 +^ Decided | 2020-01-01 |
 +^ Citation | Citation awaited |
 +^ Petitioner | RTI applicant |
 +^ Respondent | Income Tax Department |
 +^ RTI Act sections | §8(1)(j) |
 +^ Outcome | Rejected |
 +
 +===== Outcome =====
 +
 +A person's income-tax returns are confidential personal information; third-party RTI access barred under §8(1)(j).
 +
 +===== Ratio decidendi =====
 +
 +Income-tax returns filed with the IT Department are personal financial information under §8(1)(j). A third-party request for another's ITR is barred unless the applicant demonstrates a larger public interest under §8(2). Post-DPDP 2025, the framework is reinforced.
 +
 +===== Keywords =====
 +
 +income tax, tax returns, §8(1)(j), Delhi HC, confidentiality
 +
 +===== This case cites =====
 +
 +  * [[/important-decisions/court/girish-ramchandra-deshpande|Girish Ramchandra Deshpande v. CIC]] (SC 2012)
 +  * [[/important-decisions/k-s-puttaswamy-vs-union-of-india|K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India]] (SC 2017)
 +
 +===== Similar cases in the corpus =====
 +
 +//These rulings have the closest editorial ratio to this case — computed by tf-idf cosine similarity over ratio, keywords and Act sections. Useful starting points if you are researching the same point of law.//
 +
 +  * [[/cases/cic-rti-property-tax-assessment-2020|Property-tax assessment records — CIC]] (CIC 2020)
 +  * [[/cases/delhi-hc-rti-gstn-data-2020|GSTN / GSTIN data — Delhi HC]] (HC-DEL 2020)
 +  * [[/cases/delhi-hc-dpdp-interface-2025|DPDP 2025 effect on §8(1)(j) — Delhi HC guidance]] (HC-DEL 2025)
 +  * [[/important-decisions/court/girish-ramchandra-deshpande|Girish Ramchandra Deshpande v. CIC]] (SC 2012)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-foreign-contribution-ngo-returns-2019|FCRA returns of NGOs — CIC]] (CIC 2019)
 +
 +===== Related =====
 +
 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?court=HC-DEL|All High Court of Delhi rulings in the corpus]]
 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?section=8|All RTI cases turning on §8]]
 +  * [[:cases:search|Full case-law search]]
 +  * [[:cases|Case-Law Database — overview]]
 +  * [[:pio-rti-reply-guide|PIO RTI Reply Guide]]
 +  * [[:act|The RTI Act, 2005 — annotated]]
 +
 +<WRAP center round alert 95%>
 +**Editorial summary, not a certified report.** The ratio here is an editorial compression. Before citing this ruling in a PIO order, FAA speaking order, or any appellate filing, **verify against the full reported decision**. RTI Wiki is not a legal service.
 +</WRAP>
 +
 +
 +
 +//Editorial summary · last reviewed 21 April 2026.//
 +
 +{{tag>case-law court-hc-del section-8}}