PUBLIC INTEREST


In a case of better late than never, the citizens of Jammu & Kashmir have, at last, got their own RTI portal (www.rtionline.jk.gov.in), which was launched early this week, with 270 public authorities to whom you can address your RTI request and 27 pages of lists of nodal officers with their...

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Charu Bahri (IndiaSpend) 02 December 2024
In late September 2024, the high court of Chhattisgarh registered a suo motu public interest litigation (PIL) over two non-functional oxygen plants at the Bilaspur district hospital, alleging that the plants had been operated by untrained operators and that their failure necessitated that the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 November 2024
Almost 28% of the grains supplied by the Food Corporation of India (FCI) and state governments never reach the intended beneficiaries, which amounts to a financial loss of about Rs69,108 crore, equivalent to roughly 20mn (million) metric tonnes (MMT) of rice and wheat. North-eastern states...

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Abhimanyu Hazarika (Bar  and   Bench) 28 November 2024
The Supreme Court recently took strong exception to the gender discrimination faced be elected women representatives in India, particularly at Panchayat (village council) levels (Sonam Lakra v State of Chhattisgarh and ors).   The Court was dealing with a case where it found that the ouster...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 November 2024
The Cabinet committee on economic affairs (CCEA) has approved the income tax (I-T) department's permanent account number (PAN) 2.0 project. This project aims to streamline and modernise issuing and managing PAN and tax deduction and collection account number (TAN), making it more user-friendly...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 November 2024
The Supreme Court has called on the Centre and states to furnish data regarding vacancies in Central and state information commissions as well as the proposed timelines for appointment of information commissioners, says a report from LiveLaw.   A bench of justice Surya Kant and justice Ujjal...

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A series of right to information (RTI) applications by an applicant addressed to the central public information officer (CPIO) and the first appellate authority (FAA) of the central information commission (CIC), Delhi, has earned the wrath of the central information commissioner for the delay...

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Moneylife Digital Team 21 November 2024
The Bombay High Court recently ordered 1 lakh in compensation to a woman from Mumbai for the unlawful arrest of her husband, while also highlighting serious concerns about police misconduct (Ratna Chandrakant Vannam And Anr v. Tukaram K. Jadhav).   The Bench comprising Justices Bharati Dangre...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 November 2024
The Supreme Court on Monday ordered that physical classes for all school students up to grade 12 in Delhi should be suspended for the time being in light of the acute air pollution that has gripped the national capital, says a report from Bar & Bench.  A bench of justice Abhay S Oka and...

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Safeena Wani (IndiaSpend) 18 November 2024
Forty-year-old Angmo Norbu found that even her second visit in a month to Sonam Nurboo Memorial Hospital in Leh, around 100 km from her residence in the Durbok area of Changthang region in eastern Ladakh, was a waste of time.   For the second time, doctors had refused to remove her sister’s...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 November 2024
While several reports ask taxpayers to link their permanent account number (PAN) with Aadhaar before 31 December 2024, the actual deadline to do so is already over. In fact, from 1 July 2023, PANs not linked with Aadhaar became inoperative. Since then, the Union government has been collecting...

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In a surprising justification from someone as senior as an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, the denial of information under the Right to Information (RTI) Act has been attributed to the model code of conduct currently in effect in Maharashtra due to the upcoming Assembly elections...

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In a surprising justification from someone as senior as an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, the denial of information under the Right to Information (RTI) Act has been attributed to the model code of conduct currently in effect in Maharashtra due to the upcoming Assembly elections...

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Sahyaja MS (Bar  and   Bench) 12 November 2024
The Bombay High Court on Monday held that marks obtained by candidates in recruitment process to public posts can be disclosed under the Right to Information Act, 2005 (RTI Act) and disclosure of the same will not amount to violation of candidates' privacy.   A Division Bench of Justices MS...

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Every few days, social media highlights the relentless struggles of India's marginalised communities: caste discrimination, bonded labour, lack of healthcare, inadequate infrastructure, rampant corruption and exploitative interest rates. From bankers to the police, everyone agrees that the poor...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 November 2024
New York City has announced that it will no longer issue vouchers to migrants to pay for food, ending a controversial programme that had repeatedly come under attack by conservatives and others, says a report from ABC. This move comes following a victory of Donald Trump in the presidential...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 November 2024
In an extraordinary comeback for a former president who refused to accept defeat four years ago, sparked a violent insurrection at the US Capitol Hill, was convicted of felony charges and survived two assassination attempts, Donald Trump has been elected the 47th president of the US. The...

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Information commissioner (IC) Vinod Tiwari recently directed the central public information officer (CPIO) of United India Insurance Company Ltd (UIC) to provide a photograph of a vehicle over 12 years old, which is claimed to have been involved in an accident and without corrosion, as this was...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 06 November 2024
The Supreme Court on Wednesday criticized the Uttar Pradesh (UP) government for demolishing an individual's house without following legal procedures.   A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra observed that the demolition was 'high...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 05 November 2024
The Supreme Court on Tuesday held that all private properties can't be considered "material resources of the community" under Article 39(b) of the Constitution to be taken over by State to subserve the "common good" (Property Owners Association and ors v State of Maharashtra and Ors).   A...

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