In particular, Kumar had sought information regarding the grant of approval for running a dairy at the Equine Breeding Stud. However, he had also asked about the number of eggs produced in a month there and the number of cows, goats and chickens kept there.
This shows that the information is not being sought for any useful purpose but only for other reasons best known to the petitioner, the Court said.
On the petitioner’s submission that he only wanted to know about the approval granted by Ministry of Defence for running the dairy, the Court said,
“Once the land was in the occupation of the Indian Army and the same was being used for a particular purpose by the Indian Army, whether any approval of the Ministry of Defence, Government of India to run a Dairy in the said land was given or not, is of no concern of the petitioner and can compromise the security of the Institution run by the Army for their own purpose.”
