CBI closure reports — CIC — RTI Wiki Citizen Guide 2026

Quick Reply: CBI §24 exempt; closure reports [where corruption/human-rights invoked via proviso] disclosable with CIC approval. CBI §24 exempt, but §24 proviso opens. </WRAP>

CBI §24 exempt, but §24 proviso opens corruption/human-rights investigation closure reports via CIC approval. ===== Case details ===== ^ Court | Central Information Commission | ^ Decided | 2020-01-01 | ^ Citation | Citation awaited | ^ Petitioner | Complainant / RTI applicant | ^ Respondent | CBI | ^ RTI Act sections | §8(1)(h), §24 | ^ Outcome | Partly allowed | ===== Outcome ===== CBI §24 exempt; closure reports (where corruption/human-rights invoked via proviso) disclosable with CIC approval. ===== Ratio decidendi ===== CBI is a §24-notified exempt organisation. The §24 proviso — allegations of corruption and human-rights violations — opens a narrow disclosure path. Closure reports in such matters are disclosable with CIC's case-by-case approval; operational details remain protected under §8(1)(h). ===== Keywords ===== CBI, §24 proviso, corruption, closure report ===== 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. * CBI exemption under §24 — Delhi HC (HC-DEL 2013) * §24 proviso — corruption complaint — Bombay HC (HC-BOM 2018) * Police public-relation / RTI-application data — Delhi HC (HC-DEL 2021) * Mass-surveillance policy transparency — Delhi HC (HC-DEL 2022) * Police complaint records — Karnataka SIC (SIC-KA 2021) ===== Related ===== * All Central Information Commission rulings in the corpus * All RTI cases turning on §8 * All RTI cases turning on §24 * Full case-law search * Case-Law Database — overview * PIO RTI Reply Guide * The RTI Act, 2005 — annotated

Editorial summary · last reviewed 21 April 2026.