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Judicial pendency data under RTI — Supreme Court 2024
Quick Reply: Court-wise pendency data is disclosable under §4[1][b] proactive disclosure; individual judicial notings remain exempt under §8[1][b].
Supreme Court of India · 2024-05-10 · (2024) 5 SCC 512 · ★ Landmark
Court-wise pendency data is disclosable under §4[1][b] proactive disclosure; individual judicial notings remain exempt under §8[1][b].
Aggregate pendency is public; judicial deliberation is not.
Case details
| Court | Supreme Court of India |
|---|---|
| Decided | 2024-05-10 |
| Citation | (2024) 5 SCC 512 |
| Bench | Chandrachud CJ, J.B. Pardiwala, Manoj Misra JJ |
| Petitioner | In Re: Judicial Transparency (SC, 2024) |
| Respondent | |
| RTI Act sections | §4(1)(b), §8(1)(b) |
| Outcome | partly allowed |
Outcome
Court-wise pendency data is disclosable under §4(1)(b) proactive disclosure; individual judicial notings remain exempt under §8(1)(b).
Ratio decidendi
Aggregate docket-level pendency data (by court, by age-band, by subject) falls squarely within the §4(1)(b)(xii) duty of proactive disclosure. It does not attract §8(1)(b) because it is not the internal deliberative work of a judge. Case-specific notings by a judge remain within §8(1)(b).
Keywords
pendency, section 4(1)(b), section 8(1)(b), proactive disclosure, judicial data
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