breach of confidence of commercial information
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
CIVIL APPEAL NO. 10044 OF 2010
CENTRAL PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER,
SUPREME COURT OF INDIA ….. APPELLANT(S)
VERSUS
SUBHASH CHANDRA AGARWAL ….. RESPONDENT(S)
W I T H
CIVIL APPEAL NO. 10045 OF 2010
A N D
CIVIL APPEAL NO. 2683 OF 2010
J U D G M E N T
N.V. RAMANA, J.
31. Section 8(1)(d) of the RTI Act has limited the action of defence of confidentiality to only commercial information, intellectual property rights and those which are concerned with maintaining the competitive superiority. Therefore, aforesaid section is only relatable to breach of confidence of commercial information as classically developed. Although there are examples wherein commercial confidentiality are also expanded to other types of breach of confidential information, however, under Section 8(1)(d) does not take into its fold such breach of confidential information actions.