14 May 2023
Conflicting decisions on Section 24 of the RTI Act
On 26th April, 2023, a single judge of the Delhi High Court in Nisha Priya Bhatia v. CPIO, Ministry of Urban Development, upheld the decision of the Central Information Commission to not direct the Research and Analysis Wing (‘RAW’) to disclose applications made by an IPS officer seeking allotment of government accommodation. The Court ruled that RAW was an exempted...