Central Information Commission News

The Gujarat High Court on Friday quashed a seven-year-old order of the Central Information Commission (CIC) which had asked the Gujarat University to provide information on Modi's degree to Kejriwal.

The Central Information Commission held that a wife can get information about the gross income of her husband through an RTI The CIC turned down the I-T department's decision that the wife belonged to a third party The CICI rubbished the 'third-party' argument of the I-T department that such information does not pertain to the RTI

The government has appointed Sudhir Bhargava as new Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) along with four new Information Commissioners in the Central Information Commission which had been functioning with just three of them as against a sanctioned strength of 11, including the Chief Information Commissioner.

The CIC has also asked the Prime Minister's Office, the Finance Ministry and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to make public the letter of former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan on bad loans.

The CIC verdict would effectively mean that the BCCI become a National Sports Federation (NSF). 

The commission has denied the appeal of a petitioner who had also sought to know the rules governing extension of security cover to a private individual and the authorities, which foot the bill of such cover to a private individual.

PM Modi also added that among those people from Delhi who got the awards, maximum were doctors who used to look after the health of politicians.

The new premises of the Central Information Commission in Delhi is a state-of-the-art green building.

CIC has issued a show-cause notice to the Mumbai IMD's CPIO for including GST in the fees that he asked a city-based activist to pay in advance.

CIC RK Mathur rejected the objection by the PMO in disclosing the information on grounds of "national security".

An RTI applicant had moved CIC seeking explanation regarding use of words like shaheed or martyr The MoD said in its reply that there is no term as "martyr" or "shaheed" in the Army or police lexicon A shaheed or martyr is called a battle casualty or operations casualty, it said

There is no term as "martyr" or "shaheed" in the Army or the police, the ministries of defence and home have said.

The benefits of the foreign visits of Prime Minister Narendra Modi cannot be quantified and are not part of official records, the Prime Minister's Office has told the Central Information Commission.

The question, forwarded as an alternative narrative of history by some claiming to be historians and the subject of various court cases, reached the CIC through an RTI plea.

A complaint was filed in December 2016 at the Parliament Street Police Station by ex-MP. However, an FIR was registered in the matter on July 14 on the directions of Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik.

CIC has directed the government to proactively put in the public domain data about officials facing corruption cases in each department.

The Central Information Commission is looking to clear by March next year all the pending cases filed till 2016, Chief Information Commissioner RK Mathur on Friday said.

Information on sexual harassment cases should be provided to victims within 48 hours under the Right to Information Act as it pertains to their "life and liberty", the Central Information Commission has held.

Information Commissioner Bimal Julka has recused from the Central Information Commission (CIC) full bench hearing a complaint against political parties for defying the RTI Act.

The Central Information Commission has directed the National Archives of India to publish the statement of Nathuram Godse, the man who was executed for assassinating 'Father of The Nation' Mahatma Gandhi, on its website.