Kochi, April 18: NHRC Chairman K G Balakrishnan has sought rejection of an RTI petition seeking details of his Income Tax returns saying the applicant has “malafide intentions” and “vested interests” to tarnish his image and that information is personal in nature.
He said the returns carry details of PAN card and bank account number which is personal information with “enough possibility of tampering and misuse”.
In his additional affidavit before the I-T department’s First Appellate Authority in RTI matters Balakrishnan said he had filed these returns in his “personal capacity and not under the capacity of the Chief Justice of India.”
Income Tax authorities had in February last year refused to reveal details of tax returns filed by Balakrishnan and his family members on the RTI application by Dr T Balachandran, Executive Member of Kerala RTI Federation, after former CJI objected to the disclosures.
-Agencies