Income tax returns are public documents & can be summoned by Court

Pragati Green Meadows and Resorts Ltd. Vs M. Praneetha (Telangana High Court) Income tax returns are public documents and they can be summoned by the Court. If same are produced before the Court , the same does not result in violation of Article 21 of Constitution of India, as they are Government documents and are accessible to others. The case of the petitioner company is that it has purchased the suit lands in the name of respondent No.1, and to prove the same, it sought a direction to respondent No.3 to produce the income tax returns and bank statement of respondent No.2. Since the examinat...