Prayagraj, March 11 -- The Allahabad high court held that information regarding marks scored in a public examination is not confidential and does not require the consent of the third party whose marks are sought by an RTI applicant under the Right to Information Act, 2005.

While allowing a writ petition filed by the Union of India through general manager of Diesel Locomotive, and another, a division bench comprising Justice Ajit Kumar and Justice Swarupama Chaturvedi, in a judgment dated February 26, held: "Marks obtained by a candidate, if information regarding that is sought by another candidate who has also participated in the examination, is not such confidential private information which may require even the consent of that third pa...