RIGHT TO INFORMATION


Moneylife Digital Team 02 April 2025
A recent right to information (RTI) query has exposed alarming irregularities in the installation of hoardings on railway land in Mumbai, revealing that no ownership records exist for 103 out of 306 hoardings. The findings point to the growing influence of the hoarding mafia operating on land...

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The central information commission (CIC) has raised serious concerns over the lack of transparency in the re-evaluation process of the assistant personnel officer (APO) examination, directing the National Academy of Indian Railways (NAIR) to implement measures that would ensure fairness and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 21 March 2025
The prestigious 2024 Maharashtra Bhushan Award has been conferred upon Ram Sutar, the celebrated sculptor behind iconic works such as the ‘Statue of Unity’. The announcement was made by Maharashtra chief minister (CM) Devendra Fadnavis in the legislative assembly and deputy CM (DCM) Eknath...

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Virender Singh, a celebrated Deaflympics athlete, professional wrestler, and Padma Shri awardee who filed a right to information (RTI) application seeking details of the selection process for the prestigious Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award was denied information by the central public...

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A right to information (RTI) applicant seeking information on those investigation reports by the serious fraud investigation office (SFIO), which have been completed by investigative officers, has got some respite from the central information commissioner (CIC). The CIC directed the SFIO, which...

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The Right to Information (RTI) request to the income-tax (I-T) commissioner’s office, wherein the applicant demanded copies of his own audit report, has been prolonging for over three years, thanks to this public authority’s dilly-dallying, even petitioning the High Court (HC) and sitting on...

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Author Dibya Das, who writes under the pen name Kollorob, invoked the Right to Information (RTI) Act with the central public information officer (CPIO) of the department of consumer affairs, seeking details on an ongoing copyright infringement case and alleged irregularities concerning legal...

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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has come under fire, for the third time now, by the Bombay High Court (HC), for failing to fulfil its constitutional duty under Article 21, which guarantees the fundamental right to life and personal liberty, as well as for its lack of response to multiple...

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In November 2023, the Supreme Court ruled that for a fire insurance claim, if the insurer is not found to be responsible for starting the fire, then identifying the precise cause of the fire is not necessary. Since then, the insurance companies are under obligation to uphold the insurer’s terms...

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Bhavini Srivastava (Bar  and   Bench) 11 February 2025
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked Right to Information (RTI) activist Neeraj Sharma whether any public interest was involved in his request under the RTI Act for records of students who had cleared the Bachelor of Arts (BA) course from Delhi University (DU) in 1978, the year in which Prime...

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Recently, a central information commissioner slammed the two central public information officers (CPIOs) of a Defence Sainik School in Delhi with a show-cause notice on why they should not be penalised for lazing over providing information for three long years and ordered them to provide the...

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The central information commission (CIC) has expressed grave concern over the handling of a recent right to information (RTI) request by the public information officers (PIOs) of the ministry of youth affairs and sports (MYAS), for refusal to accept a second appeal hearing notice issued by him;...

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The continuous denial of information on the licence renewal details of a private hospital in Delhi and the exorbitant expenditure documents of its patient, prompted the central information commissioner Vinod Kumar Tiwari to remark in his recent order, that the gradual privatisation of public...

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Although a citizen has alternatives to directly access records through channels like the courts or the charity commissioner’s office, the state information commissioner of Nagpur division in Maharashtra stated that “Transparency of funds received from various authorities and government...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 January 2025
Mumbai's Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) has reported 834 accidents involving its buses over the past five years, resulting in the tragic loss of 88 lives. The administration disclosed this information in response to a query filed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act by...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 January 2025
After refusing to share dates when Madhabi Puri Buch, the chairperson of the Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and her family declared their financial assets, the Union ministry of finance (FinMin) now claims that its regulatory establishment (RE) section has no information to provide...

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Against the backdrop of news of serious allegations against National Museum officials about the handling and movement of priceless antiquities against the directives of the Union ministry of culture; alleged smuggling of artifacts and its officers allegedly travelling on personal passports...

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SN Thyagarajan (Bar  and   Bench) 08 January 2025
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday held that the Central Information Commission (CIC) cannot ask the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to requisition information on subscribers from Telecom Service Providers (TSPs) under the Right To Information Act (RTI). (TRAI v. Akshay Kumar...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 07 January 2025
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the Central government's Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) to give a timeline within which pending vacancies in the Central Information Commission (CIC) and various State Information Commissions (SIC) would be filled (Anjali Bhardwaj & Ors. v....

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Young Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, Bhagyashree Navtake, who undertook a complex series of fraud investigations between 2020-2022, involving the Jalgaon-based Bhaichand Hirachand Raisoni Multi State Cooperative Credit Society Ltd (BHRC), following multiple complaints from its depositors,...

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