Sri Lanka, March 28 -- The Court of Appeal has set aside a 2018 directive issued by the Right to Information Commission against the Monetary Board of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, holding that the Commission acted beyond its legal mandate.Sri Lanka Travel

The judgement, delivered by Justice R.Gurusinghe and Justice M. C. B. S. Morais, found that the Commission had wrongly prioritised public interest over statutory protections, concluding that the potential harm in releasing the requested information had not been adequately weighed.

The Court clarified that although the RTI Commission has the authority to order disclosure of information held by public bodies, such powers are expressly restricted by exemptions under Section 5 of the Rig...