RIGHT TO INFORMATION


Prashant Jha (Bar  and   Bench) 01 April 2026
The Supreme Court of India told the Delhi High Court on Wednesday that it does not maintain judge-specific information about allegations of corruption or misconduct.    Advocate Rukhmini Bobde appeared for the public information officer of the Supreme Court and stated that even collating such...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 February 2026
The Supreme Court on Tuesday undertook a wide-ranging review of vacancies, appointments and mounting pendency in the central and state information commissions, reiterating that the right to information (RTI) is a fundamental right and that transparency in the appointment of information...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 January 2026
A fresh set of replies received under the Right to Information (RTI) Act by transparency campaigner commodore (Cmde) Lokesh Batra (retd) has raised new questions over who ultimately bore the cost of printing high-value electoral bonds after the Supreme Court struck down the scheme in February...

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Moneylife Digital Team 14 January 2026
The Delhi High Court (HC) has observed that even if the PM CARES Fund is managed, supervised or controlled by the government, it does not automatically lose its right to privacy under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. The court underlined that statutory privacy protections available to third...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 January 2026
BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has refused sanction in an overwhelming majority of corruption complaints referred to it over the past several years, effectively preventing even preliminary anti-corruption inquiries against its officers, reveals a reply received under the Right to...

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Chandramouli Mohan 12 January 2026
India's Right to Information (RTI) Act empowers ordinary citizens to demand transparency from government bodies and public authorities. However, the central information commission (CIC)—the final watchdog for RTI appeals—now drowns under 32,232 pending cases as of January 2026. This includes...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 December 2025
A fresh first appeal filed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act has once again brought scrutiny on the management of government bungalows located in the Lutyens bungalow zone (LBZ) of New Delhi, raising questions over illegal retention of official residences, allotments to private trusts,...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 18 December 2025
The Supreme Court on Wednesday remarked that a judicial officer was not expected to file requests under the Right to Information (RTI) Act to uncover the reasons for his suspension.   A bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi made the observation while...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 28 October 2025
The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Central and State governments to complete the process of appointing Information Commissioners within three weeks. (Anjali Bharadwaj & Ors. vs. Union of India & Ors.)    The bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi said it had no reason to doubt...

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Prof M Sridhar Acharyulu 14 October 2025
In this concluding part, Dr M Sridhar Acharyulu examines how the legislature, executive and judiciary have collectively undermined the spirit of transparency over two decades of the Right to Information Act. He also outlines what must be done to restore citizens’ right to know.   If part one...

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Prof M Sridhar Acharyulu 13 October 2025
This is the first of a two-part article by former central information commissioner Dr Madabhushi Sridhar Acharyulu, examining how recent changes to India’s data protection framework have dealt a severe blow to transparency and press freedom. Part one explores how amendments under the Digital...

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Moneylife Digital Team 03 October 2025
A petition filed by a 19-year-old management student, has led the Bombay High Court to order a deeper probe into alleged irregularities in a road project in Mulund, exposing what could be a misuse of nearly Rs90 lakh in public funds. The student, Ayman Shaikh, who began filing requests for...

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Has the Nagpur office of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) appointed some of its employees who allegedly provided fake caste certificates to get the jobs? Since a requites filed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act did not provide the required information, a second appeal has been filed with...

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The central information commission (CIC) recently came down hard on the public information officer (PIO) of the food & supplies department, Delhi, which gave excuses of heavy work load and a fire incident to defend itself from providing information to an RTI (Right to Information) applicant...

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Ganesh Chavan, a third-year law student of Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU), who had sought access to his fourth semester marks ledger through the Right to Information (RTI) Act but was denied the same by the university’s public information officer (PIO), is now victorious with the...

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The central information commission (CIC), last week on 4th September, adjourned an RTI appeal concerning the alleged Rs55 crore fraud at Punjab & Sind Bank’s DU Khalsa College branch, after observing that its central public information officer (CPIO) failed to provide a credible justification...

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The central information commission (CIC) disposed of two second appeals on 2 September 2025, filed by RTI applicant Deepak Sharma against the central public information officer (CPIO) of the Stock Holding Corporation of India Limited (SHCIL), Mumbai, denying his request for details linked to an...

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Through a series of Right to Information (RTI) Act applications, civic activist Qaneez Sukhrani, who had procured detailed information on how Pune’s roads are being built and maintained and thereafter won a high court case, has now slammed a legal notice on the civic chief of Pune Municipal...

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Prashant Jha (Bar  and   Bench) 25 August 2025
The Delhi High Court on Monday overturned the Central Information Commission's (CIC) order to disclose information related to Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi's degree. The HC also set aside a 2017 order passed by the CIC directing the Central Board of School Education (CBSE) to provide an RTI...

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Moneylife Digital Team 22 August 2025
“Every RTI application is essentially a mini social audit,” declared Right to Information (RTI) activist Bhaskar Prabhu, setting the tone at a workshop organised by Moneylife Foundation. He reminded participants that the RTI Act is not a magic wand that instantly fixes civic problems, but...

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