RIGHT TO INFORMATION


The continuous denial of information on the licence renewal details of a private hospital in Delhi and the exorbitant expenditure documents of its patient, prompted the central information commissioner Vinod Kumar Tiwari to remark in his recent order, that the gradual privatisation of public...

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Although a citizen has alternatives to directly access records through channels like the courts or the charity commissioner’s office, the state information commissioner of Nagpur division in Maharashtra stated that “Transparency of funds received from various authorities and government...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 January 2025
Mumbai's Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) has reported 834 accidents involving its buses over the past five years, resulting in the tragic loss of 88 lives. The administration disclosed this information in response to a query filed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act by...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 January 2025
After refusing to share dates when Madhabi Puri Buch, the chairperson of the Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and her family declared their financial assets, the Union ministry of finance (FinMin) now claims that its regulatory establishment (RE) section has no information to provide...

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Against the backdrop of news of serious allegations against National Museum officials about the handling and movement of priceless antiquities against the directives of the Union ministry of culture; alleged smuggling of artifacts and its officers allegedly travelling on personal passports...

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SN Thyagarajan (Bar  and   Bench) 08 January 2025
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday held that the Central Information Commission (CIC) cannot ask the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to requisition information on subscribers from Telecom Service Providers (TSPs) under the Right To Information Act (RTI). (TRAI v. Akshay Kumar...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 07 January 2025
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the Central government's Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) to give a timeline within which pending vacancies in the Central Information Commission (CIC) and various State Information Commissions (SIC) would be filled (Anjali Bhardwaj & Ors. v....

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Young Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, Bhagyashree Navtake, who undertook a complex series of fraud investigations between 2020-2022, involving the Jalgaon-based Bhaichand Hirachand Raisoni Multi State Cooperative Credit Society Ltd (BHRC), following multiple complaints from its depositors,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 02 January 2025
Market regulator Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has once again refused to share information under the Right to Information (RTI) Act on the dates of declaration of financial assets and equities held by SEBI chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch and her family members. After contradicting...

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Information that does not harm the public servant’s career, such as date of joining, promotion details and nature of work, can be disclosed and if any information is to be denied or disclosed, proper reasons for such a decision must be provided, ordered the Madras High Court on 20 December...

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Despite the Central government having increased the upper limit from Rs10,000 to Rs50,000 per person to refund money to depositors of the Sahara group of cooperative societies, the cooperation ministry has replied to the central information commission (CIC) that the refunds are being given...

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In a reformist kind of judgement, the Kerala High Court has ruled that if documents held by a cooperative society are accessible to the registrar of cooperative societies and are not exempt from disclosure under Section 8 of the Right to Information (RTI) Act, the registrar is obliged to...

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In a case of better late than never, the citizens of Jammu & Kashmir have, at last, got their own RTI portal (www.rtionline.jk.gov.in), which was launched early this week, with 270 public authorities to whom you can address your RTI request and 27 pages of lists of nodal officers with their...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 November 2024
The Supreme Court has called on the Centre and states to furnish data regarding vacancies in Central and state information commissions as well as the proposed timelines for appointment of information commissioners, says a report from LiveLaw.   A bench of justice Surya Kant and justice Ujjal...

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A series of right to information (RTI) applications by an applicant addressed to the central public information officer (CPIO) and the first appellate authority (FAA) of the central information commission (CIC), Delhi, has earned the wrath of the central information commissioner for the delay...

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In a surprising justification from someone as senior as an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, the denial of information under the Right to Information (RTI) Act has been attributed to the model code of conduct currently in effect in Maharashtra due to the upcoming Assembly elections...

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Sahyaja MS (Bar  and   Bench) 12 November 2024
The Bombay High Court on Monday held that marks obtained by candidates in recruitment process to public posts can be disclosed under the Right to Information Act, 2005 (RTI Act) and disclosure of the same will not amount to violation of candidates' privacy.   A Division Bench of Justices MS...

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Information commissioner (IC) Vinod Tiwari recently directed the central public information officer (CPIO) of United India Insurance Company Ltd (UIC) to provide a photograph of a vehicle over 12 years old, which is claimed to have been involved in an accident and without corrosion, as this was...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 October 2024
When the bureaucrats decide not to understand simple things like a date and a weblink, the common citizen faces a stonewall. Upholding a reply given by the central public information officer of the department of economic affairs (DEA) under the Union ministry of finance (FinMin), the first...

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While the Indian cricket team is presently in the news for all the wrong reasons—that is, for having faced a series of defeats—and although it is the Board of Cricket Control of India (BCCI) which selects the Indian team, there is no way Indians can seek transparency from this, the world’s...

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