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--- explanations:grounds-for-rejection [2018/06/05 01:19] – Shrawan
+++ explanations:grounds-for-rejection [2018/06/05 01:21] – [Denial of Information under Section 8] Shrawan
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 Applying for a job, ration card or passport are examples of public activity. However, there may be some personal information which may be with public authorities which is not a consequence of a public activity, eg. Medical records, or transactions with a public sector bank. Similarly, a public authority may come into possession of some information during a raid or seizure which may have no relationship to any public activity.
-Even if the information has arisen by a public activity,  it could still be exempt if disclosing it would be an unwarranted invasion on the privacy of an individual. Privacy is to do with matters within a home, a  person’s body,  sexual preferences etc.  This  is  in  line  with  Article 19  (2)  which  mentions  placing  restrictions  on  Article  19
+Even if the information has arisen by a public activity,  it could still be exempt if disclosing it would be an unwarranted invasion on the privacy of an individual.
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+Privacy is to do with matters within a home, a  person’s body,  sexual preferences etc.  This  is  in  line  with  Article 19  (2)  which  mentions  placing  restrictions  on  Article  19
 (1)	(a) in the interest of  ‘decency or morality’.  There  is an additional view at this juncture.38 If, however, it is felt  that the information is not the result of any public activity,  or disclosing it would be an unwarranted invasion on the privacy of an individual, before denying information it must be subjected to the acid test of the proviso: Provided that  the information, which cannot be denied to the Parliament  or a State Legislature shall not be denied to any person.