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Whether wrong facts regarding Hindustan Zinc’s Disinvestment were placed by CBI intentionally before the Supreme Court - CIC: PIO cannot expect to communicate to the citizen the reason why a certain thing was done or not done in the sense of justification     Right to Information Act 2005    PIO: He has assumed charge only recently and has not been able to locate the records related to the instant RTI Application - Appellant: No reply received - CIC: Online RTI portal shows the online RTI application and reply; Show cause notice issued to PIO     Right to Information Act 2005    RTI Act does not make any provision for giving information to Corporations, Associations, Companies, etc. - CIC: If RTI application was filed by an office bearer of any legal entity, indicating his/her name and citizenship, information can be supplied     Right to Information Act 2005    Copies of CIRP forms of an Insolvency Professional submitted by him during the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process of an entity - CIC: Disclosure of is unwarranted and undesirable in view of the bar imposed u/s 8(1)(e) of the RTI Act     Right to Information Act 2005    Copy of the file noting and the order issued on the complaint was denied u/s 8(1)(h) - CIC: Information sought was related to a complaint proceeding which was sub-judice at the time of filing of RTI and first appeal; May impede the on-going investigation     Right to Information Act 2005    Information about Transfer policy for GD officers, Options for transfer, criteria for induction, previous posting particulars etc. were sought from CRPF - CIC: Appellant has not been able to justify any allegation of corruption or human rights violation     Right to Information Act 2005    Vijai Sharma and K V Chowdary appointed as CIC and CVC respectively     Right to Information Act 2005    Is the Mysore Police Commissioner’s office coming up without plan approval?     Right to Information Act 2005    No action taken against the illegal massage parlours or spas in Goa     Right to Information Act 2005    Are there norms about the fee a school should charge and the facilities it offers?     Right to Information Act 2005    There is only 1 primary health centre per 28 villages of UP     Right to Information Act 2005    Services of all OSDs / Consultants terminated by Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai     Right to Information Act 2005    Supreme Court dismissed petition against holding CIAL a public authority under RTI Act     Right to Information Act 2005    Impact of the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022 on the RTI Act, 2005     Right to Information Act 2005    Rule 12 of RTI (Subordinate Courts & Tribunals) Rules is not inconsistent with Article 19(1)(a) and the provisions of the RTI Act     Right to Information Act 2005   

Case Laws

March 20, 2023
Whether wrong facts regarding Hindustan Zinc’s Disinvestment were placed by CBI intentionally before the Supreme Court - CIC: PIO cannot expect to communicate to the citizen the reason why a certain thing was done or not done in the sense of justification...more>>
March 15, 2023
PIO: He has assumed charge only recently and has not been able to locate the records related to the instant RTI Application - Appellant: No reply received - CIC: Online RTI portal shows the online RTI application and reply; Show cause notice issued to PIO...more>>



March 13, 2023
RTI Act does not make any provision for giving information to Corporations, Associations, Companies, etc. - CIC: If RTI application was filed by an office bearer of any legal entity, indicating his/her name and citizenship, information can be supplied...more>>
March 8, 2023
Copies of CIRP forms of an Insolvency Professional submitted by him during the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process of an entity - CIC: Disclosure of is unwarranted and undesirable in view of the bar imposed u/s 8(1)(e) of the RTI Act...more>>



March 6, 2023
Copy of the file noting and the order issued on the complaint was denied u/s 8(1)(h) - CIC: Information sought was related to a complaint proceeding which was sub-judice at the time of filing of RTI and first appeal; May impede the on-going investigation...more>>
March 4, 2023
Information about Transfer policy for GD officers, Options for transfer, criteria for induction, previous posting particulars etc. were sought from CRPF - CIC: Appellant has not been able to justify any allegation of corruption or human rights violation...more>>



Articles

Supreme Court dismissed petition against holding CIAL a public authority under RTI Act
January 27, 2023
Would the Cochin International Airport Ltd disclose the minutes of the Board meeting?   more>>
Impact of the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022 on the RTI Act, 2005
November 27, 2022
The information rights would be giving way to privacy rights if the DPDPB becomes an Act   more>>
Rule 12 of RTI (Subordinate Courts & Tribunals) Rules is not inconsistent with Article 19(1)(a) and the provisions of the RTI Act
October 17, 2022
Copies of ''A' diary of civil and criminal postings of the cases cannot be obtained under the RTI Act   more>>

Comments

In case of government job recruitment, how long should the authority preserves the data?
February 14, 2023
The RTI Act does not prescribe the time period for preservation of records   more>>
The information of total four points sought under the RTI Act has not been supplied
February 12, 2023
The case is pending and information is not in the public domain for the last over 10 years   more>>
I lodged many grievances regarding pension fixation but my department rejected it
February 4, 2023
On 6th CPC, my scale was upgraded, but my department has denied it very illogically   more>>