Justice Biren Vaishnav of Gujarat High Court set aside a 2016 order of the Central Information Commission order asking the Gujarat University to provide information on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s degree to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, saying “educational documents including degrees fall within the ambit of personal information of a citizen, disclosure of which is exempted under Section 8(1)(j) of the RTI Act."

The High Court also imposed a cost of Rs 25,000 on Arvind Kejriwal, who had sought the information under the RTI Act, and directed him to deposit the amount with the Gujarat State Legal Services Authority within four weeks.

Kejriwal remarked in a Twitter post, said: “Doesn’t the country even have the right to know how much the PM has studied? … Illiterate or less educated PM is very dangerous for the country.”