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+{{htmlmetatags>metatag-keywords=(Co-operative society records under RTI — Gujarat HC 2019,Gujarat High Court RTI,RTI §2,section 2(h),co-operative society,Thalappalam,substantial financing,Gujarat)&metatag-description=(Co-operative societies substantially financed by government are §2[h] public authorities; purely member-run societies are not.)}}
+====== Co-operative society records under RTI — Gujarat HC 2019 ======
+<WRAP center round info 95%>
+**Gujarat High Court** · 2019-04-18 · 2019 SCC OnLine Guj 756
+</WRAP>
+//Substantial-finance test from //Thalappalam// applies to Gujarat co-operatives.//
+===== Case details =====
+^ Court | Gujarat High Court |
+^ Decided | 2019-04-18 |
+^ Citation | 2019 SCC OnLine Guj 756 |
+^ Bench | R, ., M, .,  , C, h, h, a, y, a,  , J |
+^ Petitioner | Savli Taluka Co-op. Agri. & Rural Dev. Bank Ltd. |
+^ Respondent | Gujarat State Information Commission |
+^ RTI Act sections | §2(h) |
+^ Outcome | partly allowed |
+===== Outcome =====
+Co-operative societies substantially financed by government are §2(h) public authorities; purely member-run societies are not.
+===== Ratio decidendi =====
+Applying the Supreme Court test in //Thalappalam Service Co-op. Bank v. State of Kerala// (2013), the Court held that a co-operative society is a §2(h)(d)(i) public authority only where there is substantial government financing or control. Mere registration under the Co-operative Societies Act does not by itself trigger §2(h). Where societies receive continuing budgetary support or their Board is state-nominated, they come within the Act. The petitioner society here did not meet the threshold and was outside §2(h).
+===== Keywords =====
+section 2(h), co-operative society, Thalappalam, substantial financing, Gujarat
+===== Similar cases in the corpus =====
+//These rulings have the closest editorial ratio to this case — computed by tf-idf cosine similarity over ratio, keywords and Act sections. Useful starting points if you are researching the same point of law.//
+  * [[/cases/hc-karnataka-rti-cooperative-bank-2024|Urban Co-operative Bank records — Karnataka HC 2024]] (HC-KAR 2024)
+  * [[/cases/karnataka-hc-rti-2019-cooperative|Cooperative societies — Karnataka HC]] (HC-KAR 2019)
+  * [[/important-decisions/thalappalam-coop-vs-state-of-kerala|Thalappalam Service Coop Bank v. State of Kerala]] (SC 2013)
+  * [[/cases/dav-college-trust-v-director-2019-sc|D.A.V. College Trust and Management Society v. Director of Public Instructions]] (SC 2019)
+  * [[/cases/cic-charitable-trust-public-authority-2017|Charitable trusts receiving State grants — CIC]] (CIC 2017)
+===== Related =====
+  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?court=HC-GUJ|All Gujarat High Court rulings in the corpus]]
+  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?section=2|All RTI cases turning on §2]]
+  * [[:cases:search|Full case-law search]]
+  * [[:cases|Case-Law Database — overview]]
+  * [[:pio-rti-reply-guide|PIO RTI Reply Guide]]
+  * [[:act|The RTI Act, 2005 — annotated]]
+  * [[https://indiankanoon.org/doc/placeholder-gujarat-hc-coop-2019/|External reported text →]]
+<WRAP center round alert 95%>
+**Editorial summary, not a certified report.** The ratio here is an editorial compression. Before citing this ruling in a PIO order, FAA speaking order, or any appellate filing, **verify against the full reported decision**. RTI Wiki is not a legal service.
+</WRAP>
+~~NOCACHE~~
+//Editorial summary · last reviewed 21 April 2026.//
+{{tag>case-law court-hc-guj section-2}}

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