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- 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.
IPL Ticket Refund and RTI for Fans
Quick Reply: IPL match cancelled or abandoned? Learn whether RTI can help with ticket refund issues, what fans can ask from police, municipal bodies and stadium authorities, and copy a ready RTI…
Your IPL match was cancelled, abandoned due to rain, or you were denied entry despite having a ticket. You paid for tickets, travel and parking. Who is answerable: BCCI, franchise, ticketing platform, police, stadium authority or government department?
The short answer is practical. RTI may not directly get your refund. But it can uncover records showing permissions, police deployment, complaints, and notices after cancellation or abandonment.
An IPL ticket refund is usually a private ticketing or organiser issue. RTI gives access to information held by public authorities.
Important. RTI is for information, not direct refund. It cannot order BCCI, a franchise, or a ticketing platform to return money.
Need to file RTI after an IPL match cancellation? Copy the format below and send it to the concerned police, municipal or district authority.
How to Write an RTI Application
Quick Reply: After 25 years of training PIOs and activists, here is the single lesson that fixes most rejections: ask for records, not answers. The rewrite takes two minutes.
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In one line. If you want to know how to write an RTI application that works, write it to request records that exist — not answers, not explanations, not “why.” This single shift fixes most rejections. The rest of this piece shows you how, from someone who has read thousands of replies.
RTI: No Right to Insist on Original Documents
Quick Reply: Gujarat High Court held that once accessible RTI records and copies are supplied, an applicant cannot insist on original documents through the CPIO. Evaluatory analysis of Himanshu Parmar v State…
A practitioner evaluation of the Gujarat High Court's order dated 5 May 2026 in Himanshu Parsottambhai Parmar v. State of Gujarat & Ors., R/Special Civil Application No. 15120 of 2025. The first takeaway is direct: RTI gives access to records, inspection and copies. It does not give the applicant custody of original government or university documents once accessible records have been supplied. The second takeaway is procedural: the Information Commission is not a court for deciding whether the supplied information proves a recruitment or reservation-law violation.