RTI Application cannot be rejected for mere non-annexing of Citizenship Proof: CIC

R K Malik Vs Central Public Information Officer (Central Information Commission)

Section 3 of the Act reads, ‘Subject to the provisions of this Act, all citizens shall have the right to information’. Nowhere does it say, nor imply, that a person would be required to prove his citizenship every time that he was asking for information. Thus, there are thousands of applications which are considered without a person providing a certificate to prove that he is an Indian citizen. This means that in the rarest of ra

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