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2008 (2) TMI 854 - HC - Indian LawsWhether the petitioner, being a third party aggrieved by the order of discharge passed by the Chief Judicial Magistrate in a sensational case under the Prevention of Corruption Act can seek for certified copies of the material records therein? Held that:- The Rules of High Court Madras Appellate Side, 1965 does not apply to a case where a third party seeks certified copies of the records of the Trial Court which have not come to the High Court in connection with any case pending before this Court. The Right to Information Act, 2005 created a dent in the so called “privacy” being so far maintained by the authorities concerned. The Courts also will have to be alive to the intendment of the Right to Information Act, 2005 to share vital information to the parties concerned. Any narrower interpretation of the law and imposition of any restriction on the right of the third party to know what is actually going on at the portals of the criminal justice system will not advance the interest of justice. For all these reasons, the Court finds that the documents sought for by the petitioners in C.C. No. 14 of 2004 will have to be granted to him.
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