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Appeals have been moved before a Division Bench of the Delhi High Court challenging the single-judge order that had quashed the Central Information Commission’s (CIC) 2016 directive to disclose details of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s educational qualifications.

The matter will be heard by a Bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela. The appeals have been filed by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Sanjay Singh, RTI activist Neeraj Sharma, and advocate Mohd Irshad.

The petitioners have questioned the August 25 order of Justice Sachin Datta, who had ruled that educational qualifications such as degrees and marks fall within the ambit of “personal information” under Section 8(1)(j) of the Right to Information Act (RTI) and cannot be disclosed un

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