BEFORE THE APPELLATE AUTHORITY

(Under the Right to Information Act, 2005)

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE BOARD OF INDIA

Appeal No. 2652 of 2017

Mahesh : Appellant
Vs.
CPIO, SEBI, Mumbai : Respondent

ORDER

1. The appellant filed an application dated December 6, 2016, under the Right to Information
Act, 2005 (RTI Act). The respondent vide letter dated January 4, 2017, responded to
the appellant. The appellant filed this appeal dated February 27, 2017, against the said
response. I have carefully considered the application, the response and the appeal and find
that the matter can be decided based on the material available on record.

2. From the appeal, I note that the appellant is aggrieved by the respondents response to
queries23 of his application.

3.1 Queries 23of the appellants application In this appeal, the appellant has reiterated
the request for information contained in the instant queries of his application.

3.2 In his response, I note that the respondent inter alia informed the appellant that salary
arrears were paid to the employees who were on the rolls of SEBI as on October 2016,
except in two cases. I note that the respondent informed the appellant that salary arrears of
employees on deputation from SEBI, employees on special hardship leave and former
employees were yet to be paid and all pending cases were under process.I further note that
the respondent invoked the provisions of Section 8(1)(j) of the RTI Act to deny
information pertaining to details of the aforesaid employees since the same was related to
personal information, disclosure of which had no relationship to any public activity or
interest. Upon a consideration of the aforementioned, I find that the requisite information
as available with SEBI in respect of the appellants application was provided by the
respondent. I, therefore, find no deficiency in the respondents response.

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4. Ifind that there is no need to interfere with the decision of the respondent. The appeal is
accordingly dismissed.

Place: Mumbai S. RAMAN

Date: March 24, 2017 APPELLATE AUTHORITY
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE BOARD OF INDIA

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