Medical reimbursement of Supreme Court judges exempted from RTI: Delhi HC

The Delhi High Court has held that Medical reimbursement of the Supreme Court judges can’t be revealed under the Right To Information (RTI) Act, saying it doesn’t serve any open investment.
Justice Vibhu Bakhru held that the Central Information Commission (CIC) was in mistake to run the Supreme Court Registry to give the data looked for, saying “restorative records are not at risk to be unveiled unless it is demonstrated that the same is in bigger open investment”.
“In the present case, the CIC has totally ignored this part of the matter. Further, the degree of Medical reimbursement to an individual is additionally, in one sense, individual data as it would uncover the degree of medicinal administrations benefitted by a single person.
“Thus, unless a larger public interest is shown to be served, there is no necessity for providing such information. Thus, a direction for maintaining records in a manner so as to provide such information is not warranted,” the court said.
The court mentioned the observable facts in its judgment on the request of the Supreme Court registry against CIC’s request regulating the pinnacle court to keep up subtle elements of therapeutic repayment profited of by each of its judges in the most recent three years to be outfitted to data seekers. The high court held CIC’s request as “incorrect”.