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Latest RTI decision notes
- Right to Be Forgotten: erase old court cases from Google after Delhi HC's 2026 ruling - what the Laksh Vir Singh Yadav judgment (2026:DHC:4891) means, the three remedies (de-indexing, delinking, masking), who is eligible vs barred, and how to apply.
- Gold Rate Today in India: 24K, 22K, 18K Price and Buyer Checklist — SEO-focused gold price guide with current-rate snapshot, city buying checklist, jewellery bill calculation, hallmark checks and a light RTI route for complaint records.
- PAN Aadhaar name mismatch? Fix KYC rejections without running office to office — high-search digital identity repair map covering PAN-Aadhaar, DigiLocker, mutual fund KYC, passport holds, bank onboarding and when RTI can actually help.
- Monday Morning RTI Checklist: Fix Pending Government Work This Week — Monday action plan for pending passport, pension, ration card, FIR, PMAY, electricity, scholarship, mutation and public-service files.
- PMAY status stuck or subsidy delayed? Use RTI after this checklist — high-interest PMAY 2026 guide covering stuck beneficiary status, missing names, delayed instalments, subsidy confusion, grievance steps and record-based RTI drafting.
- BCCI outside RTI: CIC decision in Geeta Rani case explained — legal analysis of CIC/MOYAS/A/2018/123236 after the Madras High Court remand, including Section 2(h), government control, substantial financing, tax concessions and practical RTI routes.
Supreme Court RTI rulings — the last 12 months that matter
Over the last twelve months the Supreme Court has decided several matters that practising RTI applicants must know. The headline judgment was the Electoral Bonds matter (Association for Democratic Reforms v. UoI 2024) — already digested. Here are five less-discussed but practically powerful rulings.
5 most overlooked RTI rights every Indian should know in 2026
After 21 years of the RTI Act 2005, citizens still under-use the most powerful provisions. Here are five rights that change outcomes — most PIOs are not actively volunteering them.
RTI by State — what each state actually asks (data analysis, 2026)
This post analyses RTI question patterns across Indian states using only sources we can name + verify. No scraped Google trends, no fabricated stats. The dataset is small (408 cases) and overweights cases that became visible enough to be curated — so treat each state's “top 5” as directional, not a population estimate. Where numbers are tiny (single-digit cases), we say so explicitly.
Sources: (1) RTI Wiki's curated case-law database — 408 decisions across CIC, Supreme Court, and 14+ High Courts/State Information Commissions, court-of-origin filtered to derive state-specific patterns. (2) Public Central Information Commission Annual Reports (categorising central public-authority RTIs by ministry, not by state). (3) Patterns observable in our RTI Wiki forum (100+ threads we seeded across 22 RTI categories — useful for *types* of questions citizens raise but not as a state-level distribution).
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