Airline refuses to name person who pulled plane for IPL team

New Delhi: Alliance Air on Thursday refused to give the name of the person who pulled out a scheduled commercial flight to carry an IPL team citing "fiduciary" relationship.
Fiduciary relationship was limited to very restricted personal relations like between doctor-patient and others and was not applicable for official purposes.
TOI had reported that a Delhi-Coimbatore Air India flight, IC 7603, scheduled to leave at 5.20am on April 20, was aborted less than 12 hours before its departure to allow the aircraft to be deployed as a chartered flight to ferry civil aviation minister Praful Patel's daughter Poorna and some IPL players from Chandigarh to Chennai. RTI applicant S C Agrawal had asked the airline the name of the person who made a request for such an arrangement along with other details.
Public Information Officer (PIO) of Alliance Air Arun K Goyal, in reply to the question about the name of the person, said, "As per Section 8(1)(e) of RTI Act, 2005, this information is exempt from disclosure."
The PIO said this information was "exempted under section 8(1)(e) of RTI Act which talks about fiduciary relationship. "
13/08/10 Times of India

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