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Details Such As Names Of MPs Signatory To Impeachment Motion Exempt From Disclosure Under RTI Act: CIC [Read Order]19 May 2019 4:42 AM GMT

Details of MPs who gave the Motion of Impeachment (of Justice CV Nagarjuna Reddy of the High Court for Andhra Pradesh and Telangana) and who subsequently withdrew their names is exempt from...

CBI Must Share Info On Corruption Or Human Rights Violation Cases Under Its Scanner; CPIOs Need Sensitization On Sec 24 RTI Act: CIC [Read Order]10 May 2019 6:56 AM GMT

Holding that the CBI is bound to share information relating to corruption or human rights violation, irrespective of whether the information pertains to the CBI or its officers or to other persons...

Whether Disciplinary Proceedings Against Employees Is A 'Personal Information' Exempted From Disclosure Under RTI Act? SC Issues Notice [Read Order]8 May 2019 11:46 AM GMT

'Personal Information Exemption Not Available To Corporate Entity; Staff Entitled To Know About Financial Status Of Company' : CIC [Read Order]25 April 2019 4:31 AM GMT

Fee For RTI Application Shall Be Sought As Per RTI Rules Only: SC [Read Order]24 April 2019 5:29 AM GMT

Centre Doesn't Have "In Compile Format" Data On Mercy Petitions Moved By Rapists or Terrorists, Reveals RTI10 April 2019 4:50 AM GMT

The President has received 135 mercy petitions since 1981 from death row convicts but the Centre, it seems, has no data on the mercy petitions received prior to 1981. It also does not have 'in...

EVM Is An 'Information' Under RTI Act: CIC [Read Order]25 Feb 2019 6:01 AM GMT

Electronic Voting Machine is an 'information' under the Right to Information Act, the Central Information Commission has held. Chief Information Commissioner Sudhir Bhargava held thus in an...

Central Info Commissioner Should Have The Status Of Chief Election Commissioner; Do Not Select Bureaucrats Only For The Post: SC15 Feb 2019 5:28 AM GMT

The Supreme Court today issued a slew of directives regarding the filling up of vacancies in Central and State Information Commissions under Right To Information Act.The key directions passed by the...

Will Governor's Office Come Under RTI Act? SC To Examine7 Feb 2019 6:00 AM GMT

By transferring a petition pending in the Bombay High Court to itself, the Supreme Court has agreed to examine the issue whether the office of Governor is amenable to the provisions of Right to...

SC vs RTI : SC's Stay Of Delhi HC's Landmark Judgment Enters 9th Year22 Jan 2019 11:23 AM GMT

The recent Collegium decisions to elevate Justices Dinesh Maheshwari and Sanjiv Khanna to SC left many bewildered. The decision was in reversal of an earlier proposal made on December 12 to elevate...

Death Row Convict Seeks IB Report To Prove Innocence, Delhi HC Asks CIC To Reconsider Order Of Denial [Read Judgment]21 Jan 2019 7:14 AM GMT

As a death row convict in the 7/11 Mumbai train serial bombings seeks under the RTI Act a copy of an Intelligence Bureau (IB) report submitted to the Home Ministry in order to prove his wrongful...

No Clarity On Pay & Tenure Of Information Commissioners, As Centre's Notification Is Silent6 Jan 2019 7:15 AM GMT

After delaying filling up of vacancies in the Central Information Commission for long, the Centre has notified four more vacancies of Information Commissioners on Friday.Curiously, reference to the...

Sudhir Bhargava Takes Charge As CIC Chief2 Jan 2019 5:19 AM GMT

Mr. Sudhir Bhargava took oath as the Chief Information Commissioner in the Central Information Commission (CIC) on Tuesday.He was administered the oath of office by President Ram Nath Kovind at a...

President Clears Appointment Of Four Information Commissioners In CIC30 Dec 2018 5:55 PM GMT

The Centre, on Saturday, appointed four new Information Commissioners in the Central Information Commission (CIC), which has been functioning with only three Information Commissioners as against a...

CIC Sridhar Acharyulu Retires After A Proactive Term As RTI Custodian21 Nov 2018 2:57 PM GMT

'It is undeniable that his tenure has strengthened the RTI regime, shaping it as a powerful tool to ensure constitutional governance'Professor M Sridhar Acharyulu(also known Madabhushi Sridhar) has...

Disclosure of Loan Defaulters' List : CIC Should Ensure Compliance By RBI, Acharyulu Writes To Chief Information Commissioner [Read Letter]20 Nov 2018 10:08 AM GMT

The outgoing Central Information Commissioner Prof.M. Sridhar Acharyulu has written to the Chief Information Commissioner R K Mathur making a fervent plea that CIC should take steps to make the...

PMO & RBI Should Reveal Information On Willful Defaulters & Raghuram Rajan's Letter : CIC [Read Order]20 Nov 2018 3:27 AM GMT

The Central Information Commission has directed the Reserve Bank of India and the Prime Minister's Office to disclose information on list of willful defaulters and action taken on the ‘alerting...

Bar Council Of Delhi CPIO Fails To Provide Info On Missing RTI Section From Website; CIC Slaps Rs. 5,000 Penalty19 Oct 2018 1:59 PM GMT

The Central Information Commission (CIC) has imposed a penalty of Rs. 5,000 on the Central Public Information Officer (CPIO) of the Bar Council of Delhi (BCD) for delaying supply of information to an...

60% Of Denials By Information Commissioners Have Been In Violation Of RTI Act: Study Finds16 Oct 2018 5:35 AM GMT

Non-imposition of penalties under the Right to Information Act by Information Commissioners (ICs) is causing an estimated loss of Rs.203 crores annually, a recent research has found.The research was...

MPLADS Fund : CIC Recommends Legal Framework For Transparency In Fund Utilization [Read Order]17 Sep 2018 6:03 AM GMT

It is sad that law makers of the nation did not make law for their own MPLADSThe Central Information Commission has recommended the Lok Sabha Speaker and Rajya Sabha Chairman to issue appropriate...