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CIC: The ‘life or liberty’ provision can be applied only in cases where there is an imminent danger to the life or liberty of a person & the nonsupply of the information may either lead to death or grievous injury to the concerned person

Respondent: Appellant was caught red handed taking a bribe & the case is under trial; he has filed over 50 RTI applications - CIC admonished the Appellant for running a parallel enquiry & asked to place the RTI replies on the Department website

CIC held that it cannot be the intent of the RTI Act that for one RTI application more than one appeal lies to the different FAA and multiple appeals to CIC, as was being conveyed by the PIO and the officer for first appellate authority

Appellant sought information relating to insurance policies of her late husband; printing on the policy was small & difficult to read - Respondent: date of commencement of risk is the date from which risk cover under a policy starts - CIC: Decision upheld

CIC: U/s 19(8)(a), the Delhi LG office asked to inform and explain their contradictory stand regarding whether they are a public authority u/s 2(h) of the RTI Act; The people in Delhi have a right to know whether their LG office is public authority or not

Respondent: Board resolution may contain special interest rates etc. giving details of which would harm their competitive position - CIC: provide copy of the Board Meetings after severing the information containing commercial confidence

Quick look at the annual report of the CIC which was released yesterday

Defence Organisations are covered under the purview of RTI Act

Sports Ministry asks IOA & NSFs to pro-actively post information on their websites

Information Commissioners stress on the need for training in respect of RTI Act, 2005

CIC recommends distribution of sweets on national festivals

How many people lost their lives over the Western railways tracks?

Bombay High Court imposes costs and directs registering an FIR for missing files

CIC: Explain why Aadhar card number made mandatory for issuance of caste certificate

Gist of Delhi HC Judgment: Mother Dairy is a public authority

Case Laws

March 5, 2015 CIC: The ‘life or liberty’ provision can be applied only in cases where there is an imminent danger to the life or liberty of a person & the nonsupply of the information may either lead to death or grievous injury to the concerned person...more>>	March 5, 2015 Respondent: Appellant was caught red handed taking a bribe & the case is under trial; he has filed over 50 RTI applications - CIC admonished the Appellant for running a parallel enquiry & asked to place the RTI replies on the Department website...more>>

March 4, 2015 CIC held that it cannot be the intent of the RTI Act that for one RTI application more than one appeal lies to the different FAA and multiple appeals to CIC, as was being conveyed by the PIO and the officer for first appellate authority...more>>	March 4, 2015 Appellant sought information relating to insurance policies of her late husband; printing on the policy was small & difficult to read - Respondent: date of commencement of risk is the date from which risk cover under a policy starts - CIC: Decision upheld...more>>

March 3, 2015 CIC: U/s 19(8)(a), the Delhi LG office asked to inform and explain their contradictory stand regarding whether they are a public authority u/s 2(h) of the RTI Act; The people in Delhi have a right to know whether their LG office is public authority or not...more>>	March 3, 2015 Respondent: Board resolution may contain special interest rates etc. giving details of which would harm their competitive position - CIC: provide copy of the Board Meetings after severing the information containing commercial confidence...more>>

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Latest Bytes

Quick look at the annual report of the CIC which was released yesterday March 5, 2015 The CIC annual report points to the lacunae in the implementation of the RTI Act more>>
Defence Organisations are covered under the purview of RTI Act March 4, 2015 Manohar Parrikar informs a Rajya Sabha member in reply to a parliamentary question more>>
Sports Ministry asks IOA & NSFs to pro-actively post information on their websites March 3, 2015 Sports associations to be covered under the RTI Act and made answerable to RTI queries more>>
Information Commissioners stress on the need for training in respect of RTI Act, 2005 March 1, 2015 Denial of information to the citizens is a denial of their rights more>>
CIC recommends distribution of sweets on national festivals February 28, 2015 There are no rules in respect of distribution of sweets during festivals by NDMC more>>
How many people lost their lives over the Western railways tracks? February 27, 2015 Difference in statistics sourced from two organisations raises doubt over quality of data more>>
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Articles

Bombay High Court imposes costs and directs registering an FIR for missing files March 2, 2015 Can ‘missing’ files be used as an excuse to deny information under the RTI Act? more>>
CIC: Explain why Aadhar card number made mandatory for issuance of caste certificate February 10, 2015 Show cause proposed for penalty and public authority asked to put remedial action on website more>>
Gist of Delhi HC Judgment: Mother Dairy is a public authority February 6, 2015 Government has the ability to exercise its dominion over the affairs of Mother Dairy more>>
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Comments

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Proactive disclosure of information about beneficiaries in J&K under the SRE scheme February 10, 2015 Security-Related Expenditure scheme is a Central Scheme more>>
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