INCOME TAX RETURN THIRD PARTY COVERED UNDER RTI

Information given to Income Tax authorities by assesses does not come under fiduciary relationship and cannot be denied to an RTI applicant on that ground, the Central Information Commission has held. The transparency panel while hearing the plea of Rakesh Kumar Gupta, who had sought to know about estimated tax evasion figure, rejected the contention of Income Tax department that the information is held in fiduciary relationship.(THIS IS SUBJECT TO CONDITIONS,PLS GO THROUGH COMPLETE CASE)