INFORMATIONS RELATED TO THE DEATH AND BIRTH CERTIFICATES COULD NOT BE CONSIDERED THIRD PARTY INFORMATION UNDER RTI ACT ADJUDICATION AND MUST BE ISSUED ON DEMAND TO APPLICANTS

In a judgement issued by the honourable High court of Himachal Pradesh justice Tarlok Singh Chouhan has directed the Director Panchayati Raj department to issue directions to the Panchayat Secretary of a Panchayat to issue death certificate of a person demanded by the applicant as such it could not be denied to the applicant on the grounds of third party more over the person who has died could not effect any interest of the any one and there is no logic to deny the death certificate of a person on the grounds of the third party concern As such the above RTI information could not be ignored in any capacity of the Panchayat Secretary responsible to maintain the public records of death and birth of the Panchayat which must be considered as public document .