Table of Contents

AIIMS / PGI medical records — Delhi HC

High Court of Delhi · 2020-01-01 · Citation awaited

AIIMS/PGI = §2(h); own treatment record fully accessible; third-party records §8(1)(j) protected.

Case details

Court High Court of Delhi
Decided 2020-01-01
Citation Citation awaited
Petitioner Patient / relative
Respondent AIIMS / PGI
RTI Act sections §2(h)
Outcome Partly allowed

Outcome

AIIMS is a public authority; patient's own treatment records fully accessible; third-party medical records §8(1)(j) protected.

Ratio decidendi

All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGI) are public authorities under §2(h). A patient is entitled to their own complete medical record — admission, treatment, discharge, billing. Third-party patient data is §8(1)(j) protected.

Keywords

AIIMS, PGI, medical records, §2(h)

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.

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.

Editorial summary · last reviewed 21 April 2026.