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...
The bar councils are open to public scrutiny under the Right To Information (RTI) Act and should set-up a mechanism to facilitate processing of applications directed to them under the transparency law, the Central Information Commission has held.
Taking a strict view of frivolous petitions that flood the courts, the Bombay high court in an unprecedented move has ordered a city-based organisation, the Bhrastachar Nirmoolan Sanghatana , to pay Rs 40 lakh as legal costs after dismissing its public interest litigations against a super-luxury tower on Peddar Road
Delhi HC rejects Supreme Court’s claim on CJI’s office being exempt from RTI, citing checks and balances. Upholding accountability, the verdict emphasizes well-defined standards for judicial independence.
In a ruling that is bound to have ramifications, specially on big tax-payers , and in a move aimed at curbing tax evasion, the Central Information Commission has ruled that seeking information on income tax is not invasion of privacy. Ruling out that disclosure of information would lead to unwarranted invasion of the privacy of the individual
After politicians and judges of the Supreme Court, now the assets of babus have also been prised open to public scrutiny by RTI. In a landmark order, the Central Information Commission (CIC) has said that disclosure of information such as assets of a public servant, routinely collected by the public authority,
Can a judge be asked under the Right to Information (RTI) Act as to why and how he came to a particular conclusion in a judgment? No, says the Supreme Court. The apex court saw the mischief potential of queries under the RTI Act in relation to a judge and his judgments and a Bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice B S Chauhan firmly said that a judge speaks through his judgments and he could not be made to answer questions relating to his verdict in a case.
It has been made clear that such information cannot be sought directly from the private business groups but from a government department which holds it.
The Union government is contemplating a bunch of amendments to its flagship Right to Information (RTI) Act to stop ‘mischievous and frivolous’ queries through the right that is aimed at bringing more transparency in government services.The proposed set of amendments would also try to bring a part of the security establishment under the public scrutiny.
After perusing the submissions made during the hearing and considering the submissions made during the hearing, it appears that the following exemptions have been claimed by the Department and the Third parties- Section 8(1)(b), (d), (e), (h), and (j). Section 3 of the RTI Act very succinctly states `Subject to the provisions of this Act, all citizens shall have the right to information. ‘ Thus according to the RTI Act, if the information as defined under Section 2(f) is not exempt from di
Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan’s recent request to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to protect the judiciary from increasingly ‘‘intrusive’’ queries appears to have triggered an exercise to look for options to effect changes in the RTI Act. Following the CJI’s impassioned letter, which said questions asked by chronic litigants about the judiciary could erode its independence, the government has started looking into possible changesin the RTI Act, highly placed sources said.
