The Bombay High Court has recently ruled that development of SEZs are of Public interest and the documents related to it cannot be kept confidential and it has to be public domain.
A division bench of Justice B H Marlapalle and Justice N D Deshpande was hearing a petition filed by SKIL Infra that had challenged the RTI commissioner's order asking Cidco to provide a Navi Mumbai resident with documents of the Navi Mumbai SEZ Pvt Ltd. The petition stated that the company had tied up with Cidco, the development authority, to set up the Navi Mumbai SEZ and the two had agreed on a deal that documents pertaining to this joint venture would be kept confidential.
The Bombay High court said that in a case where public interest was involved, a confidentiality clause between the Private Parties would not be applicable and documents would have to be made public.
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