RTI – CIC has no power to direct Public Authority to furnish information – SC

Chief Information Commissioner and another Vs. State of Manipur and another (Supreme Court)-  Government of Manipur has notified the exemption of certain organisations of the State Government from the purview of the said Act.This Court makes it clear that those notifications cannot apply retrospectively. Apart from that the same exemption does not cover allegations of corruption and human right violations. The right of the respondents to get the information in question must be decided on the basis of the law as it stood on the date when the request was made. Such right cannot be defeated on t...