As RGNUL Patiala remains one of several national law universities (NLU) that still do not publish their annual financial statements online, one right to information (RTI) applicant approached the Central Information Commission (CIC) against the law school.

The Bar Council of India (BCI) denied a right to information (RTI) request for the meeting minutes and reasons for its unexpected decision to yet again increase the bar exam fees by another 40 per cent.

The Delhi high court has bizarrely exempted state bar councils from the statutory duty to publish their meeting minutes online, on the ground that some of these minutes may contain third party information of a confidential nature.

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has still not complied with its statutory duty under the Right to Information (RTI) Act 2005, more than six weeks after the Central Information Commission (CIC) threatened to impose maximum penalty on BCI chairman Manan Kumar Mishra, if the BCI continues in its non-compliance of the law.

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has not satisfactorily complied with the Right to Information Act 2005 (RTI Act) provision which requires that it publish all its affairs on its website, held the Central Information Commission (CIC). The CIC said it is inclined to impose maximum penalty on the BCI if it doesn’t comply in a definite amount of time.

The Central Information Commission (CIC) asked two national law university faculty members to comment on an alleged live-in relationship between them, in response to a Right to Information (RTI) request filed in NLU Delhi by a relative of one of the two faculty members, reported Live Law . Correctio...

With the Central Information Commission facing a huge pendency of cases, the Delhi high court on Friday directed the centre to finalise the selection of three central information commissioners within six weeks. “The selection process that has already been commenced vide notifications dated 25 Februa...

The Delhi high court on Friday agreed to consider a plea seeking direction to the central government to fill three vacant posts of information commissioners in Central Information Commission (CIC) in a “time bound” manner. A division bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice RS Endlaw said it will...

The central government on Monday told the Supreme Court that political parties were not covered under RTI as they were not public authorities and any attempt to bring them under the transparency law was fraught with dangers of misuse with “malicious intention” of thwarting their “smooth internal wor...

“The Central Information Commission has directed the Bar Council of India to proactively post on its website the question papers and keys of the All India CIC Bar Examination for the benefit of young lawyers,” reported the PTI . Information Commissioner Sridhar Acharyulu said: It is reported that ar...

The Central Information Commission (CIC) fined the Bar Council of Delhi’s (DBC) secretary Murari Tiwari Rs 25,000 for not complying with its order and for failing to appear before it, reported the PTI . The CIC found Tiwari “fully responsible” for not furnishing information sought in a Right to Info...

The Supreme Court yesterday stayed its September 2012 order that made it compulsory to appoint retired judges to central and state information commissions under the Right to Information (RTI) Act 2005.

Central government prepares to file for review of the Supreme Court’s 13 September judgment that said that each RTI information commission should also be staffed by an HC or SC judge [ BS ] CIC, none of whose commissioners have a judicial background, had stopped functioning after the judgment and ha...

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