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"a) Attested Copy of DPC 2007 & attested copy of DPC 2008 proceedings for the post of AGMs.
b) Attested Copy of Marks allotted by DPC Members in DPC 2007 for the post of AGMs.
c) Attested Copy of Marks allotted by DPC Members in DPC 2009 for the post of AGMs.
d) What are the criteria followed for promotions from DGM to AGM.
e) Attested Copy of DPC 2006 proceedings for the post of DGM.

(vi) Since the petitioner had delayed in supplying the information, it should be visited with penalty under Section 20(1) of the RTI Act.

(vii) Learned counsel for the respondent placed reliance on the decisions of the CIC in the case of PK Saha v. Coal India Ltd. dated 23.10.2008, whereby the CIC has taken a similar position vis-a-vis the DPC proceedings. Reliance was also placed by the learned counsel on the following judgments:

(i). Bhagat Singh v. CIC & Ors., 146 (2008) DLT 385; (ii). Dev Dutt v.
7.4 As regards the 2nd application of the respondent dated 14.8.2009, which concerned disclosure of information broadly qua minutes of the DPC proceedings, the CIC by the very same impugned order directed the petitioner to provide to the respondent, DPC minutes for the year 2006 with regard to promotions made by the petitioner from grade E-6 to E-7, and those made, in grade E-7 to E-7A, albeit for the years 2007 and 2009, 7.5 The petitioner claims that, it received no notice of the appeals from the CIC. The petitioner in its rejoinder, however, has conceded that it did receive intimation of the appeals having been fixed for hearing before the CIC in the afternoon of 26.2.2010, albeit via a communication dated 22/23.02.2010, sent by the respondent. According to the petitioner, the intimation was received at its office located in Tehri, in the State of Uttrakhand and, therefore, sufficient time was not available to make arrangements for its representation before the CIC.

9.9 On the other aspect with which the petitioner is aggrieved, I am not persuaded by the argument of the petitioner that the information with regard to the DPC proceedings would fall within the exception provided under Section 8(1)(d) of the RTI Act. In my view, information with regard to DPC proceedings cannot come within the ambit and scope of any of three exclusions i.e. commercial confidence, trade secret and intellectual property rights. Though, I am conscious of the fact that the information referred to in Section 8(1)(d) of the RTI Act is not confined to the three types of information referred to above - no amount of liberality adopted in that behalf would bring ACRs within its ambit. Section 8(1)(d) would, in my view, include such information which takes colour from the expression commercial confidence, trade secrets and intellectual property.