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+{{htmlmetatags>metatag-keywords=(§3 — right available to 'citizens'  not 'persons',Supreme Court of India RTI,RTI §3,RTI §6,§3,citizens,standing,companies,foreign nationals)&metatag-description=(§3 limits the right to 'citizens'; companies, associations, and foreign nationals lack direct standing.)}}
+====== §3 — right available to 'citizens', not 'persons' ======
+<WRAP center round info 95%>
+**Supreme Court of India** · 2012-01-01 · Citation awaited
+</WRAP>
+//§3 'right to information' is to citizens only; companies / non-citizens lack direct §3 standing.//
+===== Case details =====
+^ Court | Supreme Court of India |
+^ Decided | 2012-01-01 |
+^ Citation | Citation awaited |
+^ Petitioner | Foreign national / Non-citizen applicant |
+^ Respondent | PIO |
+^ RTI Act sections | §3, §6 |
+^ Outcome | Rejected |
+===== Outcome =====
+§3 limits the right to 'citizens'; companies, associations, and foreign nationals lack direct standing.
+===== Ratio decidendi =====
+§3 confers the right to information on 'citizens' — interpreted to exclude companies, foreign nationals, and associations as such. An application by a natural-person citizen (including on behalf of an organisation) is the correct route.
+===== Keywords =====
+§3, citizens, standing, companies, foreign nationals
+===== 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.//
+  * [[/important-decisions/electoral-bonds-adr-2024|ADR v. Union of India (Electoral Bonds)]] (SC 2024)
+  * [[/cases/cic-rti-foreign-confidential-2019|Foreign-government confidential communications — §8(1)(f) — CIC]] (CIC 2019)
+  * [[/important-decisions/k-s-puttaswamy-vs-union-of-india|K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India]] (SC 2017)
+  * [[/cases/state-of-up-v-raj-narain-1975-sc|State of U.P. v. Raj Narain]] (SC 1975)
+  * [[/cases/sp-gupta-v-uoi-1981-sc|S.P. Gupta v. Union of India (Judges' Transfer)]] (SC 1981)
+===== Related =====
+  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?court=SC|All Supreme Court of India rulings in the corpus]]
+  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?section=3|All RTI cases turning on §3]]
+  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?section=6|All RTI cases turning on §6]]
+  * [[: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-3 section-6}}

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