CIC
ORDER: HUSBAND CAN SEEK GENERIC INCOME DETAILS THROUGH RTI OF ALIENATE WIFE
In a latest ruling,
the Central Information Commission has directed a Central Public Information
officer to provide a man with the “Generic details of the net taxable income/
gross income” of his wife for the specified time period as seeks in the RTI
Application.
In the case title
i.e. Yash Malhotra vs CPIO, the appellant filed an RTI application for seeking
the Gross/ Net income of his wife. The CPIO furnished a reply and stated that
since such records have already been produced before the Civil Court during
pendency of maintenance case; therefore, seeking such information through RTI
Act 2005,channel won’t serve any public interest, as such.
The information
commissioner Sh. Saroj Punhani relied upon the decision dated 06.11.2020 of a
coordinate bench of the commission in the Rahmat Bano case, Wherein the
disclosure of the gross income was allowed to the estranged wife on the ground
of sustenance and livelihood of their family.