Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934
45E. Disclosure of information prohibited
(1) Any credit information contained in any statement submitted
by a banking company under section 45C or furnished by the bank to any banking
company under section 45D, shall be treated as confidential and shall not,
except for the purposes of this chapter, be published or otherwise disclosed.
(2) Nothing in this section shall apply to-
(a) the disclosure by any banking company,
with the previous permission of the Bank, of any information furnished to the
Bank under section 45C;
(b) the publication by the Bank, if it
considers necessary in the public interest so to do, of any information
collected by it under section 45C, in such consolidated form as it may think
fit without disclosing the name of any banking company or its borrowers;
(c) the disclosure or publication by the banking
company or by the bank of any credit information to any other banking company
or in accordance with the practice and usage customary among bankers or as
permitted or required under any other law:
PROVIDED that any credit information received by a banking
company under this clause shall not be published except in accordance with the
practice and usage customary among bankers or as permitted or required under
any other law.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time
being in force, no court, tribunal or other authority shall compel the Bank or
any banking company to produce or to give inspection of any statement submitted
by that banking company under section 45C or to disclose any credit information
furnished by the Bank to that banking company under section 45D.