law: Whistle Blowers Protection Act, 2011
  8. Certain matters exempt from disclosure.
  1.    No
  
  person shall be required or be authorised by virtue of provisions contained in
  
  this Act to furnish any such information or answer any such question or produce
  
  any document or information or render any other assistance in the inquiry under
  
  this Act if such question or document or information is likely to prejudicially
  
  affect the interest of the sovereignty and integrity of India, the security of
  
  the State, friendly relations with foreign State, public order, decency or
  
  morality or in relation to contempt of court, defamation or incitement to an offence,-
  a.  
  
    as might involve the disclosure of proceedings of the Cabinet of
  
  the Union Government or any Committee of the Cabinet;
  b.  
  
    as might involve the disclosure of proceedings of the Cabinet of
  
  the State Government or any Committee of that Cabinet, and for the purpose of
  
  this sub-section, a certificate issued by the Secretary to the Government of
  
  India or the Secretary to the State Government, as the case may be, or, any
  
  authority so authorised by the Central or State Government certifying that any
  
  information, answer or portion of a document is of the nature specified in
  
  clause (a) or clause (b), shall be binding and conclusive.
  2.    Subject
  
  to the provisions of sub-section (1), no person shall be compelled for
  
  the purposes of inquiry under this Act to give any evidence or produce any
  
  document which he could not be compelled to give or produce in proceedings
  
  before a court.