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Information about a dormant Bank account - CIC: The second appeal filed by the appellant was time-barred & in absence of any application for condonation of delay in filing the second appeal, after a lapse of almost two years, the same is not maintainable     Right to Information Act 2005    Copies of orders regarding establishment and jurisdiction of all special courts/ CBI courts at Jaipur for trial of PC Act cases were not available with them - CIC: RTI application was not replied in a comprehensive manner; Provide a revised reply     Right to Information Act 2005    PIO: (Extra) Rs. 10/- has been sent back to the applicant as there is no provision to accept additional fee in advance - CIC: Although the information provided by the PIO is appropriate, the delay caused in providing the same is viewed adversely     Right to Information Act 2005    Information about CESTAT order - Hearing notice sent to AC CGST returned with remarks of the postal authority ‘addressee moved’ - CIC re-scheduled the instant matter - Notice of hearing should be sent on the correct address of the Public Authority     Right to Information Act 2005    Correspondence between IGCAR and District Vigilance Committee regarding valid caste certificate - PIO: The conduct of the appellant is far from fair; Public Authority is getting bogged down with the non-productive work - CIC: Appropriate responses sent     Right to Information Act 2005    Under the impression that RTI application was already replied, PIO returned the RTI application - PIO expressed regret for the mistake saying there was no malafide intention - CIC: Send a copy of written submission to Appellant; No further intervention     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    Are the state-funded ‘public trust institutions’ obligated to provide ‘information’ under the RTI Act?     Right to Information Act 2005    Takeaways from the Supreme Court verdict on the Electoral Bond Scheme     Right to Information Act 2005    We will know, we will live - RTI     Right to Information Act 2005   
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Case Laws

February 22, 2023
Appellant disputed the veracity of the information given and questioned the mode of verification of educational qualifications of MPs put on the Lok Sabha Secretariat website - CIC: Veracity of the information given cannot be adjudicated under the RTI Act...more>> 		February 20, 2023
Information about companies/firms/LLP registered under ROCAP and those which have inducted foreign nationals as directors etc was sought - CIC: Eexemption claimed u/s 8 is not specific and the same was not amplified in the reply; Send a revised reply...more>>
February 17, 2023
Information about tender - CIC: The claim of photocopying charges after the lapse of 30 days was not maintainable as per the RTI Act - CIC: PIO directed to provide the 125 pages free of cost after taking assistance from the custodian u/s 5(4) of RTI Act...more>> 		February 15, 2023
FAA: Appellant was seeking further clarifications on the information given and was asking for reasons for certain activities - CIC: This could have been denied on the ground of seeking additional information which was not sought in the RTI application...more>>
February 13, 2023
Appellant: Note sheets related to seeking opinion of the Ordnance Factory Board for granting backdate promotion to examiners - PIO: Page 1 to 10 contains legal opinion of the third parties - CIC: Provide the copies after masking the third parties’ details...more>> 		February 10, 2023
IBBI PIO: No specific delegation of authority has been made for the purpose of taking a decision in the matter of 2nd proviso to sub-rule 1 of rule 5 of the Companies Registered Valuer and Valuation Rules, 2017 - CIC: No further action required...more>>