Gujarat High Court rejects Arvind Kejriwal’s appeal, upholds privacy protection over PM Modi’s educational records

Gujarat High Court rejects Arvind Kejriwal’s appeal, upholds privacy protection over PM Modi’s educational records

The Right to Information Act was enacted to make public authorities accountable. But the right to know, the Gujarat High Court has now reiterated, does not erase the statutory protection accorded to personal information merely because the individual concerned occupies public office. A Division Bench of Chief Justice Sunita Agarwal and Justice D N Ray on September 29 dismissed Arvind Kejriwal’s appeal arising out of the long-running controversy o…