Husband’s income details can’t be denied to estranged wife, rules CIC

THE Central Information Commission (CIC) has directed the Income Tax Department to disclose the details of the gross income of a man to his estranged wife, holding that such information cannot be denied in a matrimonial dispute on privacy grounds.

- UDAYAN KISHORE @ New Delhi

Information Commissioner Vinod Kumar Tiwari passed the order on an application file by the estranged wife, who had sought the income details of her husband for the last five assessment years for the purpose of the maintenance proceedings before a court.

She alleged that her estranged husband was “concealing his actual earnings to evade maintenance liability”.