India, Aug. 25 -- New Delhi [India], August 25 (ANI) The Delhi High Court ruled on Monday that educational qualifications, including degrees and marks, fall within the ambit of "personal information" under Section 8(1)(j) of the Right to Information Act (RTI) and cannot be disclosed merely to satisfy public curiosity.

The judgment came in the context of a challenge to the Central Information Commission's (CIC) 2016 directive seeking disclosure of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's undergraduate degree records from Delhi University. Justice Sachin Datta observed that "something which is of interest to the public" is different from "something which is in the public interest."

The Court held that while citizens may be curious about private det...