Unfortunately only a few members (like Mr Habibullah) understand my subtle 
jokes - causing me to frequently resort to sarcasm.

"Yours not to question "why", yours but to do and die"...
Go and ask "why" from the adjudicating body not the Public Authority - High 
Court of Bombay at Goa.

http://persmin.gov.in/WriteData/CircularNotification/ScanDocument/RTI/1_7_2009-IR.pdf

The undersigned is directed to say that the High Court of Bombay at Goa in the 
above referred case has held on 3.4.2008 that the term 'information' as defined 
in the Right to Information Act does not include answers to the questions like 
'why'. The relevant part of the
judgement is reproduced below:

"The definition of information cannot include within its fold answers to the 
question "why" which would be same thing as asking the reason for a 
justification for a particular thing. The public information authorities cannot 
expect to communicate to the citizen the reason why a certain thing was done or 
not done in the sense of a justification because the citizen makes a 
requisition about information. Justifications are matter within the domain of 
adjudicating authorities and cannot properly be classified as information."

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