Supreme Court · 2011 INSC 640 · Decided 2 September 2011
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India v. Shaunak H.SATYA & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2011 INSC 640 · [2011] 14 S.C.R. 328
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 7571/2011
- Decided
- 2 September 2011
- Bench
- R.V. RAVEENDRAN, A.K. PATNAIK (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution; RTI Act Section 8(1)(d), 8(1)(e)
Headnote
Right to Information Act, 2005 - s.8(1)(d) - Examination c of candidates for enrolment as Chartered Accountants - Examination held by appellant-lnsf;tute of Chartered Accountants of India (/CAI) - Whether the instructions and solutions to questions (if any) given by /CAI are intellectual property of the /CAI, disclosure D of which would harm the competitive position of third parties and therefore exempted under s. 8(1 )(d) of the RT/ Act - Held: The question papers, solutions to questions and instructions are the intellectual properties of /CAI - However,
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