RIGHT TO INFORMATION


A fresh right to information (RTI) reply from State Bank of India (SBI) has exposed the enormous scale of the losses the country's largest lender has absorbed while settling bad loans through the national company law tribunal (NCLT) — even as the Bank continues to stonewall demands to name the...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 07 August 2026
The Supreme Court on Friday observed that a careful balance would have to be struck between citizens' right to information and the fundamental right to privacy while examining changes made to the Right to Information (RTI) Act through the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act.   A Bench...

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SN Thyagarajan (Bar  and   Bench) 31 July 2026
The Supreme Court on Friday stayed a 2007 order of the Central Information Commission (CIC) declaring the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) a public authority under the Right to Information Act (RTI Act). (National Stock Exchange vs. CIC).   A Bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep...

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Sixteen years. That is how long the National Stock Exchange (NSE) has fought to avoid being held directly accountable under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. Last week, the Delhi High Court finally dealt a decisive blow to that resistance, dismissing the Exchange's appeal and affirming that...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 July 2026
In a significant judgement strengthening the Right to Information (RTI) regime, the Supreme Court has struck down a Madhya Pradesh (MP) government notification that exempted the special police establishment (SPE) of the Lokayukt organisation from the purview of the RTI Act. The Court held that...

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Moneylife Digital Team 02 July 2026
The Maharashtra government has suspended the implementation of the newly-notified Maharashtra Right to Information (RTI) Rules, 2026, following widespread criticism from transparency activists and a threat by veteran anti-corruption campaigner Anna Hazare to launch a hunger strike against the...

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Prashant Jha (Bar  and   Bench) 01 July 2026
The Delhi High Court on Wednesday ruled that the National Stock Exchange (NSE) of India is a public authority under the Right to Information Act (RTI Act).    Being classified as a public authority makes the institution subject to the RTI Act.    A Division Bench of Justices C Hari Shankar...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 June 2026
Maharashtra's newly-notified Right to Information (RTI) Rules, 2026 have sparked strong opposition from transparency activists, who say the changes will make access to information more expensive and difficult for ordinary citizens. The new rules raise RTI application fees from ₹10 to ₹30,...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 15 June 2026
The Supreme Court on Monday said that “RTI activism” had become a “business” that was preventing public servants from performing their duties.   A Bench of Justices Sandeep Mehta and Vijay Bishnoi made the remarks while refusing anticipatory bail to two men who claimed that they were exposing...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 May 2026
The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to the Union government on a batch of petitions challenging provisions of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 and the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, particularly amendments affecting the Right to Information (RTI)...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 May 2026
Overturning its own 2018 order that had sought to bring the cricket governing body within the ambit of the transparency law, the central information commission (CIC) ruled that the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is not a 'public authority' under the Right to Information (RTI) Act,...

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Prashant Jha (Bar  and   Bench) 01 April 2026
The Supreme Court of India told the Delhi High Court on Wednesday that it does not maintain judge-specific information about allegations of corruption or misconduct.    Advocate Rukhmini Bobde appeared for the public information officer of the Supreme Court and stated that even collating such...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 February 2026
The Supreme Court on Tuesday undertook a wide-ranging review of vacancies, appointments and mounting pendency in the central and state information commissions, reiterating that the right to information (RTI) is a fundamental right and that transparency in the appointment of information...

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Moneylife Digital Team 15 January 2026
A fresh set of replies received under the Right to Information (RTI) Act by transparency campaigner commodore (Cmde) Lokesh Batra (retd) has raised new questions over who ultimately bore the cost of printing high-value electoral bonds after the Supreme Court struck down the scheme in February...

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Moneylife Digital Team 14 January 2026
The Delhi High Court (HC) has observed that even if the PM CARES Fund is managed, supervised or controlled by the government, it does not automatically lose its right to privacy under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. The court underlined that statutory privacy protections available to third...

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Moneylife Digital Team 12 January 2026
BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has refused sanction in an overwhelming majority of corruption complaints referred to it over the past several years, effectively preventing even preliminary anti-corruption inquiries against its officers, reveals a reply received under the Right to...

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Chandramouli Mohan 12 January 2026
India's Right to Information (RTI) Act empowers ordinary citizens to demand transparency from government bodies and public authorities. However, the central information commission (CIC)—the final watchdog for RTI appeals—now drowns under 32,232 pending cases as of January 2026. This includes...

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Moneylife Digital Team 26 December 2025
A fresh first appeal filed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act has once again brought scrutiny on the management of government bungalows located in the Lutyens bungalow zone (LBZ) of New Delhi, raising questions over illegal retention of official residences, allotments to private trusts,...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 18 December 2025
The Supreme Court on Wednesday remarked that a judicial officer was not expected to file requests under the Right to Information (RTI) Act to uncover the reasons for his suspension.   A bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi made the observation while...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 28 October 2025
The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Central and State governments to complete the process of appointing Information Commissioners within three weeks. (Anjali Bharadwaj & Ors. vs. Union of India & Ors.)    The bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi said it had no reason to doubt...

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