Hon’ble Supreme Court in the case of “Girish Ramchandra Deshpande vs. Cen. Information Commr. & Ors.” [Special Leave Petition (Civil) No. 27734 of 2012) in CC 14781/2012], has held that:
“The details disclosed by a person in his income tax returns are “personal information” which stand exempted from disclosure under clause (j) of Section 8(1) of the RTI Act, unless involves a larger public interest and the Central Public Information Officer or the State Public Information Officer or the Appellate Authority is satisfied that the larger public interest justifies the disclosure of such information.”[Para 14]