Although the organization is earning its revenues from the sale of commercial and media rights but it is worth to note that all the activities carried out by the organization are based on the cricket stadiums/grounds constructed on the leased land, owned by the government. All offices of the PCB are constructed on the government land leased in favor of the PCB at a highly subsidized rate which affords the source of income for the organization. The organization is therefore earning from the activities, sports or commercial, carried out on the leased land sponsored by the government at a supported rate.
This commission holds that merely because certain provision(s) in a contract may contain private information, it does not mean that it can be exempted from disclosure in its entirety.
The Act, 2017 envisages a situation wherein a document, which should be otherwise be made public but its parts may contain exempted information. In such an eventuality, part(s) containing information to be exempted can be severed, or, blanked out from the document as mentioned in Section 16 (1) (i) of the Act, 2017. However, in such a scenario, the public body is required to cite specific reason(s) for invoking the particular exemption clause of the Act, 2017.