Supreme Court · 2004 INSC 20 · Decided 6 January 2004
Pepole's Union for Civil Liberties and ANR. v. Union of India and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2004 INSC 20 · [2004] 1 S.C.R. 232
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 4294/1998
- Decided
- 6 January 2004
- Bench
- V.N. KHARE, S.B. SINHA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Evidence Act Section 123, 162; Constitution Article 19(1)(g)
Headnote
UNION FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES AND ANR. v. UNION OF INDIA AND ORS. JANUARY 6, 2004 B [V.N. KHARE, CJ AND S.B. SINHA, J.] Atomic Energy Act, 1962: Section 18-Restriction-On disclosure of information-Power a/Central C Government-Held: Central Government empowered to restrict disclosure of certain and therefore, a fundamental right. Right of information-Reasonable restriction on-Imposed by S. 18 of the Atomic Energy Act, 1962-Permissibility of-Held: The Act dealt with a E restrictive subject-Hence, prohibition of disclosure of information imposed by S. 18 a reasonable restrict
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