Larger Public Interest Archives

“Educational qualifications are personal information”; Unpacking Delhi High Court verdict on disclosure of PM Modi and Smriti Irani’s academic records

“… what may superficially appear to be an innocuous or isolated disclosure could open the floodgates of indiscriminate demands, motivated by idle curiosity or sensationalism. … The RTI Act was enacted to promote transparency in government functioning and not to provide fodder for sensationalism.”

Op Eds OP. ED.

The Precedential Value of the Split Verdict in Rathi Steels

by Dormaan Jamshid Dalal†

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(Un)Handicapping the Federal Court of India in Federal Disputes: Critique of the decision in State of M.P. v. Union of India

by Vinayak Goel†

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

CIC | RTI Act gives students the right to access their own answer sheets || Does this right involve larger public interest? How is this right interlinked with Right to life and livelihood? Commission elaborates

Central Information Commission (CIC): Uday Mahurkar, Information Commissioner, reiterated that the candidates/students have the right to access their own answer sheets as

Case Briefs High Courts

Bom HC | Right to free speech and expression includes within it the right to information; RTI is implicit and inbuilt under Art. 19(1)(a) of Constitution

Bombay High Court: A Division Bench of S.C. Dharmadhikari and R.I. Chagla, JJ., addressed a PIL that sought effective enforcement and implementation of