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.
CA, CS, CMA : Banks are asking CAs to issue end-use and KYC certificates without regulatory support. RBI confirms no such requirement exists, hi...
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 : An RTI application sought details regarding enrolment, certificate of practice, and practising status under the Advocates Act, 196...
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 : The Delhi High Court held that income tax returns and taxable income details are personal information protected under Section 8(1)...
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 : The First Appellate Authority noted that the CPIO exceeded the statutory RTI timeline by one day. However, since the requested clo...
Corporate Law : The IBBI imposed a two-year suspension after finding that the Insolvency Professional misrepresented before the adjudicating autho...
Corporate Law : The First Appellate Authority held that details of the official who uploaded CIRP documents were exempt from disclosure under Sect...
Corporate Law : The issue involved alleged incomplete disclosure under RTI. The authority held that all available records were already shared and ...
Corporate Law : The Authority held that information accessible on official websites need not be reproduced under RTI. The appeal was disposed of a...
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.”
The Delhi High Court Friday ruled that even those companies in which the government has a minority stake can be brought under the purview of the Right to Information (RTI) Act. Declaring National Agricultural Cooperative Federation of India Ltd (NAFED), National Cooperative Consumer Federation of India Ltd (NCCF) and Krishak Bharti Cooperative Ltd public authorities, Justice S. Muralidhar said there is no need to have deep or pervasive government control over an institution to bring it under the ambit of the transparency law.
The Government has clarified vide Department of Personnel and Training OM No. 1/20/2009-IR dated 23rd June, 2009 that file notings, except file notings containing information exempt from disclosure under section 8 of the Act, can be disclosed. No decision has been taken to amend the Act to exclude file notings from disclosure.
