information shall be provided the information free of charge where a public authority fails to comply with the time limits specified in sub-section ... sought unless it would disproportionately divert the resources of the public authority or would be detrimental to the safety or preservation of the record
Supreme Court of India are two distinct Public Authorities
or one Public Authority. In this context, it would be pertinent to refer again ... excluding
information from public scrutiny in public interest. No other ground for excluding
information which exists with any public authority can be deduced under
Right to Information Act, 2005
4. Obligations of public authorities.
(1) Every public authority shall (a) maintain all its records duly cataloged and indexed ... public through notice boards, newspapers, public announcements, media broadcasts, the internet or any other means, including inspection of offices of any public authority
decided that “other authorities is wide enough to include within it every authority created by a statute on which powers are conferred to carry ... court further laid down the guidelines for deciding ‘any authority’ as ‘Other Authority’ under Article 12, In the case of Ramana Dayaram Shetty
which this Act applies which is
under the control of the public authority, and no such record may
be withheld from it on any grounds ... rank to the Central Public
Information Officer or State Public Information Officer as the case
may be, in each public authority:
Provided that such officer
Members of Parliament or of any Legislature, local authority or other public authority; (aa) [ "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this ... report by a Court of justice or by a competent public authority; (vii) any person who holds an office by virtue of which
report relates, (a) the number of requests made to each public authority; (b) the number of decisions where applicants were not entitled to access ... this Act; (e) the amount of charges collected by each public authority under this Act; (f) any facts which indicate an effort by the public
protected interest by the impugned
action of the State or a public authority or any other person or who is
likely to suffer a legal ... place a ratepayer of a local authority is accorded
standing to challenge an illegal action of the local authority. Thus, a
ratepayer can question
rise to public
element, should be guided by public interest. It is the
exercise of the public power or action hedged with public
element becomes ... informed by
reasons and guided by the public interest. All exercise of
discretion or power by public authority must be judged by
that standard
under the control of public authorities, in order to promote transparency
and accountability in the working of every public authority. It was aimed
at providing ... that in the larger public interest, despite
such objection, the information should be furnished, it may so direct the
public authority. The term ‘fiduciary’ refers
