The Bombay High Court has held that in the development of Special Economic Zones (SEZs), documents cannot be kept confidential, if public interest was involved. The ruling was delivered by a bench headed by Justice B H Marlapalle which disposed of a petition filed by SKIL Infra challenging RTI Commissioner's order asking CIDCOto provide documents to a Navi Mumbai resident regarding development of Navi Mumbai SEZ Pvt Ltd.SKIL said it had joined hands with CIDCO, a development authority, to form Navi Mumbai SEZ and that both had entered into an agreement with a clause that documents pertaining to this joint venture would be kept confidential. The Court, however, ruled that in a case where public interest is involved such a clause of confidentiality would not be applicable and documents would have to be made public.