Salary of staff public info, can be shared under RTI: HC

Salary of staff public info, can be shared under RTI: HC 

03.01.2025

Bhopal/Jabalpur : The MP high court has held that salary of a public servant is public information and can't be denied under the Right to Information Act, if sought. With this observation, the court quashed the order of the public information officer and state information commission and ordered that desired information be fetched to the petitioner within a month. The petitioner, MM Sharma from Chhindwara, said he had sought information about wages paid to two employees of forest circle Chhindwara. Counsel for the petitioner, Nityanand Mishra, argued that wages of public servants is a public information, and it has to be shared if asked for under section 4 of the RTI, 2005. It can't be kept a secret on the pretext of it being private information, which can't be shared with a third person. After hearing arguments from both sides, the bench of Justice Vivek Jain allowed the petition, asking the public information officer to share the information with the petitioner within a month. TNN