RTI Act News

The court said whether the information sought by a non-citizen deserves to be disclosed has to be left to the discretion of the authority concerned who would decide the same based on the facts, situation.

A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been moved in Delhi High which seeks to bring the PM Cares Fund under the ambit of Right to Information Act and calls for more transparency in it.

The verdict was pronounced by a five-judge Constitution bench, headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, and comprising Justices NV Ramana, DY Chandrachud, Deepak Gupta and Sanjiv Khanna. The judgement was reserved on April 4 on appeals filed in 2010 by secretary general of the Supreme Court and its central public information officer challenging the Delhi High Court and the Central Information Commission's (CIC's) orders.

The verdict on bringing the office of CJI under the ambit of RTI Act will be delivered by a five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi at 2 pm.

It is to be noted that the new bill seeks to amend the 2005 RTI Act and proposes to give the Centre decisive power to set salaries, allowances and service conditions of the Information Commissioners at both central and state government levels.

The bill, which seeks to amend the 2005 RTI Act, proposes to give the Centre decisive power to set salaries, allowances and service conditions of the Information Commissioners at both central and state government levels.

The Committee of Administrators (CoA) chairman Vinod Rai on Wednesday responded on the Central Information Commission's (CIC) order to include Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) under RTI Act. 

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

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is covered under the RTI Act and answerable to the people of the country. 

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.

The proposed amendments allegedly seek to do away with the parity given to information commissions with the EC in terms of salary and allowances.

The portal can be accessed by the general public on the Home Page of the Commission's website - eci.nic.in - by clicking on 'Online RTI'. 

Denial of information for the lack of Aadhaar card is a serious breach of the right guaranteed under the RTI Act, the CIC has held.

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

Guha who was also deputed by the Supreme Court in the Committee of Administrators to run the BCCI had made sensational claims in his letter in which he had questioned the stardom and conflict of interest by some members.

All records where loans have been issued to firms promoted by Gautam Adani cannot be disclosed as these are held by State Bank of India in fiduciary capacity and involve commercial confidence informed the Central Information Commission.

The UGC and other public authorities cannot deny clarifications sought by RTI applicants if it is part of their duty to collect that information, the Central Information Commission has said, rejecting the plea of the higher education regulator that explanations cannot be sought under the transparency law.

The Central Information Commission has directed the army to provide details of soldiers whose bodies were mutilated by insurgents and enemy soldiers during skirmishes on Pakistan and China borders.

A page in Rajasthan school textbooks has been removed following the revision, a report said.

The Supreme Court Wednesday held that RBI should take rigid action against those banks and financial institutions which have been indulging in "disreputable business practices" and said it cannot withhold information on defaulters and other issues covered under the RTI Act.