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+{{htmlmetatags>metatag-keywords=(rti case law database,rti supreme court rulings,rti high court judgments,cic decisions,rti act landmark cases,rti case search,rti adjudication search,information commission orders)&metatag-description=(Search India's landmark Right to Information rulings — Supreme Court, High Courts, and Information Commissions. Filter by Act section, court, year, outcome. Free, editor-curated case-law database maintained since 2005.)}}
+====== RTI Case-Law Database ======
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+**Faceted search across 160+ curated RTI rulings** — Supreme Court, High Courts and the Central Information Commission. Free. [[:cases:search|Open the search tool →]]
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+{{ :social:auto:cases-hero.png?direct&1200 |RTI Case-Law Database — RTI Wiki}}
+===== What is here =====
+An **editor-curated, search-ready case-law database** covering the most-cited rulings on the **Right to Information Act, 2005** — indexed by:
+  * **Court** — Supreme Court of India, every major High Court, Central Information Commission, State Information Commissions
+  * **RTI Act section** — §2 through §28, including sub-clauses like §8(1)(j), §8(1)(e), §11
+  * **Outcome** — applicant allowed, request rejected, partly allowed, remitted
+  * **Year** — 1975 (//Raj Narain//) to 2025 (post-DPDP rulings)
+  * **Keyword** — parties, citation, ratio, facts
+===== How to use =====
+  - Open **[[:cases:search|the search tool]]**.
+  - Type a keyword (e.g., //fiduciary//, //cabinet//, //§8(1)(j)//) OR pick filters from the left sidebar.
+  - Click any case to open the full editorial summary (or the external reported judgment, where we have the link).
+===== Corpus coverage =====
+  * **Supreme Court** — every landmark RTI ruling from 1975 onwards, indexed to the specific Act section it turns on
+  * **High Courts** — Delhi, Bombay, Madras, Kerala, Karnataka, Calcutta, Gujarat, Allahabad, Punjab & Haryana, Rajasthan — rulings most likely to be cited in a First Appeal or Second Appeal
+  * **CIC Full Bench & CIC** — decisional lines that define working practice: §11 third-party, §8(1)(h) investigation, §8(1)(i) cabinet, §6(3) transfer, the political-parties ruling, and recent directives on GST Council and Judicial Academies
+  * **SICs** — Maharashtra and Kerala selected landmark state rulings; expanding as coverage builds
+===== How the data is curated =====
+Every case entry is:
+  * **Editor-reviewed** — we do not ingest raw scraped text. Each ratio is compressed from the reported judgment; every sub-section tag is cross-checked; every landmark flag is a deliberate editorial choice.
+  * **Versioned** — when a later ruling overtakes an earlier one (e.g., //Namit Sharma// → //Namit Sharma Review//), the superseding case is linked and the old entry is marked.
+  * **Free to use** — search is free, no login, no fee, no rate limit other than basic anti-abuse.
+===== Coming next =====
+  * **Scraper-assisted expansion** — automated ingestion of CIC and High Court orders with editorial review, growing the corpus to 500+ cases over 2026.
+  * **Citation graph** — each case will surface "cited in" and "overruled by" pointers.
+  * **AI-assisted precedent match** — Phase 2 of the Adjudication System: point a draft PIO reply or FAA order at the corpus and surface the closest precedents. Planned once the corpus exceeds ~200 cases.
+  * **Download ready-to-cite snippets** — two-line quotable editorial ratios for use in First / Second Appeal filings.
+===== Limitations =====
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+**This is an AI-assisted, editor-curated reference tool. It is not a legal service.** Ratios published here are editorial compressions of reported judgments. Before citing in a PIO order, FAA appeal, CIC/SIC submission, or High Court writ, **always consult the full reported decision**. RTI Wiki does not provide legal advice. The final adjudicatory authority rests with the Commission or Court.
+</WRAP>
+===== Related =====
+  * **[[:cases:search|Case-law search tool]]** — facet + keyword search
+  * [[:important-decisions:start|Landmark case-law library — editorial]]
+  * [[:pio-faa-knowledge-base|PIO / FAA Knowledge Base]]
+  * [[:act|The RTI Act, 2005 — annotated text]]
+  * [[:cpd:start|PIO / FAA CPD Course]]
+  * [[:tools:chat|RTI Wiki AI chat]]
+===== Sources =====
+  * Supreme Court of India — Supreme Court Reports (SCR), Supreme Court Cases (SCC), Supreme Court Judgments Database (Judis)
+  * High Courts — respective official judgment archives and //Indian Kanoon//
+  * Central Information Commission — https://cic.gov.in/orders
+  * State Information Commissions — individual state portals
+~~NOCACHE~~
+//Last reviewed: 21 April 2026.//
+{{tag>case-law adjudication database search landmark supreme-court high-court cic}}

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