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CIC: More than 70 cases of the Appellant against same/related Public Authority have already been disposed of; Appellant has grossly misconceived the idea of exercising his Right to Information as being absolute and unconditional; Appellant cautioned     Right to Information Act 2005    CIC: is aghast at the conduct and the submissions of the CPIO; Even the FAA has not bothered to decide the instant First Appeal - CIC will be constrained to deem the FAA as the CPIO in the instant matter for proceeding with action u/s 20 of the RTI Act     Right to Information Act 2005    Information regarding bidders for SBI - CIC: Appellant has been provided with the available information; CPIO has also explained the unviability of the information related to the remaining bidders during the hearing, which leaves no scope of intervention     Right to Information Act 2005    Information about Directors & Deans in Raksha Shakti University and Rashtriya Raksha University - CIC: Information available on record has been provided; A lot of information is already available in public domain; No further intervention necessary     Right to Information Act 2005    Information about BPCL Petro Cards - CIC: U/s 19(8)(a)(iii), BPCL adviced to publish relevant information regarding upgradation of the IT platform from New Loyalty Program to Advanced Loyalty program on their website to ensure wider dissemination of info     Right to Information Act 2005    Appellant: Document on the basis of which the Competition Commission arrived at a conclusion was not provided - PIO: Inspection of records was offered - CIC: Appellant is at liberty to avail inspection of records as earlier offered on a convenient date     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    Delhi HC orders removal of news articles and social media posts against a businessman on X     Right to Information Act 2005    Chief Information Commissioner has powers to frame Regulations for the constitution of Benches under RTI     Right to Information Act 2005    Are the state-funded ‘public trust institutions’ obligated to provide ‘information’ under the RTI Act?     Right to Information Act 2005   
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Case Laws

April 24, 2014
Applicant was legally wedded wife of deceased insurance policy holder & pleaded that the policy amount was paid to her mother in law without informing her - PIO: payments made as per valid nomination - CIC: no larger public interest; appeal rejected...more>> 		April 24, 2014
Copy of the report of the Board of Officers on the role and functioning of School of Foreign Languages, MOD and a copy of the reply submitted by the Director, SFL, against the report was denied being third party information – CIC: denial upheld...more>>
April 24, 2014
List of applicants with their address, status of the case of Tej Singh Vs Union of India etc was sought - CIC: case remanded to Director (MOD) with directions to respond to the first appeal; adverse view taken for non appearance of PIO in spite of notice...more>> 		April 23, 2014
Information in respect of professional qualifications of Railway Doctors - Appellant: those who use the facilities should have knowledge about the person treating them - CIC: disclose the qualifications & posts held by doctors along with MCI guidelines ...more>>
April 23, 2014
CIC: RTI Act does not provide any additional time to the PIO in cases where an application may contain more than one queries or an applicant may have filed more than one applications; show cause notice issued to PIO to explain the delay...more>> 		April 23, 2014
The cause of death of Shri Prashant Singh as mentioned by his successors in the death claim form while claiming the amount from the insurance company was denied claiming that it was third party information - CIC: information denied u/s 8(1)(j) ...more>>