respondents stating that the answer scripts are secret and privileged documents and, therefore, the petitioner coul not be allowed to inspect the same ... behalf of the respondents strenuously contended that the documents are privileged documents and, therefore, they should not be directed to be made public. The privilege
below as to whether the report of this enquiry was a privileged document.
Mr. Das has contended that the enquiry report was not a privileged ... gross misconduct. Learned Advocate General has contended that it was a privileged document and the enquiry was made only to enable the Railway Administration
against the inspection if the documents are privileged documents. In my opinion, if the documents are privileged documents, the right to claim the privilege against ... that no privilege had been claimed and no reason for privilege was stated by the State. It is said that as privilege was claimed
document. Of course it is for the Court to ultimately determine whether the document in respect of which the privilege is claimed is a State ... document falls within the ambit of Section 124 of the Evidence Act, the Court can inspect the document to determine the claim of privilege
question of privilege. Accordingly, the trial Court allowed the claim of the opposite party that the file in question was a privileged document within ... department must in the first place examine the document and consider whether privilege should or should not be claimed in respect of the document
whether granting of plain conies of certain documents and certified copies of certain other documents, regarding which privilege was being claimed under Section ... document is privileged, surely that privilege cannot be got over by litigants getting hold of copies surreptitiously of the document from the secretariat and asking
opinion
obtained by the department. Although a legal opinion is a privileged
document between the counsel and the client but since the decisions
taken
opinion
obtained by the department. Although a legal opinion is a privileged
document between the counsel and the client but since the decisions
taken
Delhi, the 21st May, 1956. The petitioner filed the document in a sealed cover, claiming privilege under Section 123 of the Evidence Act. The learned ... earlier occasion when this document was asked to be produced along with other documents, the claim of privilege was not made, but finally, when
claim of privilege that may be made. Learned counsel for the petitioners will be permitted to see such documents in possession of the learned Advocate ... document, and if it comes to the conclusion that the document does not relate to affairs of State, it should reject the claim for privilege
