Citizens entitled to know of donations given by President: HC

"Every citizen is entitled to know as to how the money, which is collected by the State from him by exaction has been utilised. Merely because the person making the donations happens to be the President of India, is no ground to withhold the said information," Justice Vipin Sanghi said.

The court upheld the CIC's order directing the President's secretariat to make public the names of recipients of the donation, besides their address and the sum of donation given by the First Citizen.

While dismissing the Centre's plea against the Central Information Commission's (CIC) May 4 order to provide the informations to Nitish Kumar Tripathi, the court said, "The Hon