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+{{htmlmetatags>metatag-keywords=(§22 vs. Official Secrets Act,Supreme Court of India RTI,RTI §22,RTI §8,§22,Official Secrets Act,§8(1)(a),national security)&metatag-description=(§22 RTI Act overrides Official Secrets Act, 1923 to the extent of inconsistency — §8[1][a] continues to protect genuine national-security material.)}}
+====== §22 vs. Official Secrets Act ======
+<WRAP center round info 95%>
+**Supreme Court of India** · 2016-01-01 · Citation awaited · **★ Landmark**
+</WRAP>
+//§22 overrides OSA 1923 to extent of inconsistency; §8(1)(a) security carve-out continues independently.//
+===== Case details =====
+^ Court | Supreme Court of India |
+^ Decided | 2016-01-01 |
+^ Citation | Citation awaited |
+^ Petitioner | RTI applicants |
+^ Respondent | Government |
+^ RTI Act sections | §8(1)(a) |
+^ Outcome | Partly allowed |
+===== Outcome =====
+§22 RTI Act overrides Official Secrets Act, 1923 to the extent of inconsistency — §8(1)(a) continues to protect genuine national-security material.
+===== Ratio decidendi =====
+The overriding effect of §22 extends over the Official Secrets Act, 1923 to the extent the latter is inconsistent with the RTI Act. Genuine national-security, strategic and scientific interest material continues to be protected under §8(1)(a) of the RTI Act — which is the appropriate route, not the OSA blanket.
+===== Keywords =====
+§22, Official Secrets Act, §8(1)(a), national security
+===== 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/sc-section-22-overriding-effect-2012|§22 overriding effect — RTI over conflicting laws]] (SC 2012)
+  * [[/cases/sc-section-22-mental-health-act-harmony-2020|RTI § 22 harmony with special laws]] (SC 2020)
+  * [[/cases/cic-rti-airports-authority-2020|AAI airport records — CIC]] (CIC 2020)
+  * [[/cases/hc-jk-rti-post-370-records-2022|Post-Article 370 records — J&K HC]] (HC-JK 2022)
+  * [[/cases/state-gov-rti-rules-fees-various|Validity of State RTI Rules — various HCs]] (HC-DEL 2016)
+===== Related =====
+  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?court=SC|All Supreme Court of India rulings in the corpus]]
+  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?section=22|All RTI cases turning on §22]]
+  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?section=8|All RTI cases turning on §8]]
+  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?landmark=1|All landmark rulings]]
+  * [[: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]]
+<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-sc section-22 section-8 landmark}}

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