Explore the power of transparency with the RTI Act. Learn how the Right to Information Act empowers citizens to access government information for a more accountable democracy.
Corporate Law : RTI Act transformed governance by allowing citizens to access official records, enhancing transparency, accountability, and public...
Corporate Law : The issue concerns denial of policy documents by invoking Section 8(1)(g) without justification. It is argued that such a non-spea...
Corporate Law : The Commission found prima facie human rights violations where students face dangerous daily travel due to lack of roads and trans...
Corporate Law : The case questions how data protection rules can operate when the parent Act is admittedly unenforced. It underscores that subordi...
Corporate Law : The statutory regulator declined disclosure of a key committee report on foreign lawyers. The decision raises questions on transpa...
Corporate Law : A generalized denial without explanation was contested as contrary to Sections 3 and 7(1) of the RTI Act. The applicant emphasized...
Corporate Law : The appellate authority held that compliance certificates on eligibility and financial capacity contain sensitive commercial infor...
Corporate Law : IBBI denies RTI appeal seeking Resolution Professional's disciplinary reply, citing fiduciary relationship under Section 8(1)(e) o...
Corporate Law : The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India's First Appellate Authority addressed an RTI appeal regarding delayed provision of tr...
Corporate Law : IBBI's First Appellate Authority dismisses Ravinder Aggarwal's RTI appeal seeking details on MSA Developers' resolution plan imple...
Corporate Law : Supreme Court ruled that the Chief Justice’s office falls under the RTI Act, affirming transparency while safeguarding judicial ...
Corporate Law : Madras High Court dismisses R. Vijayan's review petition seeking RTI compensation, finding no apparent error in prior ruling despi...
Corporate Law : The petitioner is a practicing Chartered Accountant, residing in New Delhi. His name was included in a list of “Undesirable Cont...
Corporate Law : Delhi High Court held that order passed by Central Information Commission directed disclosure of information which is entirely per...
Corporate Law : Orissa High Court rules against disclosing tax evasion petition outcome under RTI Act. Detailed judgment highlights legal reasonin...
Corporate Law : The issue was whether IBBI must provide data held by a regulated entity. The Authority held that RTI applies only to information h...
Corporate Law : The appeal found that the RTI response was delayed beyond statutory timelines. The key takeaway is that delay breaches RTI provisi...
Corporate Law : The appellate authority held that RTI applications cannot seek interpretations or clarifications on legal issues like treatment of...
Corporate Law : The issue concerns delayed response to an RTI application beyond the prescribed period. It was held that authorities must adhere t...
Corporate Law : The appellate authority held that public authorities under the RTI Act must only provide information already available in records....
Property statements filed by civil servants are not confidential information and can be disclosed after taking the views of concerned officials as per the provisions of the RTI Act, the Central Information Commission has held. Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah rejected the plea of Department of Personnel and Training that these records were held “in confidence” by the government and are hence exempted from disclosure.
Proposal for amendment of RTI Act is under consideration in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions. The proposal under consideration includes, inter-alia, amendment to enlarge the scope of suo-motu disclosure, to discourage frivolous or vexatious representations,
Padma Bhushan awardee and octogenarian Madhusudan Dhaky invested his lifetime savings into buying a flat. Little did he realise that the flat he bought was an illegal one. He is not alone to be duped, many property buyers fall prey to glib talks of unscrupulous real estate developers and agents. Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) authorities, however, insist that the victims had bought homes without properly investigating the genuineness of the house-ownership documents.
In a rare instance, the Central Information Commission (CIC) has agreed with the Supreme Court and said that its Registry could not be asked under the Right to Information (RTI) Act to provide details of the income tax returns filed by its judges.
The Vice President of India Shri M. Hamid Ansari has said that the RTI Act imposes new obligations on all stakeholders. The government is called upon to be more transparent and accountable in decision and policy making, and manage its records better. Addressing at the launch of “RTI Portal developed by Institute of Management in Government (IMG)” at Thiruvananthpuram (Kerala) today
Earlier, when Manjusha Wadhawa, counsel for the petitioner, said the accounts should be audited by the CAG for the transparent functioning of the BCCI as it represented the Indian team, Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia asked her whether at present the board’s accounts were not being audited as per the Companies Act. Counsel said the BCCI did not come under the RTI Act.
The dreaded extortion call from a bhai is unsettling for any construction tsar, but Mumbai’s builders are now quivering before far lesser mortals. The violations they indulge in, they gripe, are being ferreted out by a bunch of “professional complainants’’ with the help of the RTI Act, not to expose corruption, but to blackmail them.
The Applicant sought from the CPIO, ITAT, inspection of records relating to appeals of Escorts Limited & another and information on how third parties can become interveners and inspection of records relating to s. 4 RTI compliance. Information on the procedure to make vigilance complaints was also sought.
“We cannot accept the argument that because the information held by ITAT is in the form of only judicial record, such record is outside the purview of the RTI Act. The Supreme Court of India and High Courts, all have rules for disclosure of information both administrative and judicial.
“Information is power. This is truer now, in this information age, than ever before. In a democracy this power of information which the public authorities possess is to be shared with the people. But at the same time, not every piece of information is to be made public. There is the public interest and democratic purpose in dissemination of information on the one hand and the competing private rights and national interests in general non-disclosure, on the other.”
