An editor-curated, search-ready case-law database covering the most-cited rulings on the Right to Information Act, 2005 — indexed by:

• Court — Supreme Court of India, every major High Court, Central Information Commission, State Information Commissions
• RTI Act section — §2 through §28, including sub-clauses like §8(1)(j), §8(1)(e), §11
• Outcome — applicant allowed, request rejected, partly allowed, remitted
• Year — 1975 (Raj Narain) to 2025 (post-DPDP rulings)
• Keyword — parties, citation, ratio, facts

1. Open the search tool.
2. Type a keyword (e.g., fiduciary, cabinet, §8(1)(j)) OR pick filters from the left sidebar.
3. Click any case to open the full editorial summary (or the external reported judgment, where we have the link).

• Supreme Court — every landmark RTI ruling from 1975 onwards, indexed to the specific Act section it turns on
• High Courts — Delhi, Bombay, Madras, Kerala, Karnataka, Calcutta, Gujarat, Allahabad, Punjab & Haryana, Rajasthan — rulings most likely to be cited in a First Appeal or Second Appeal
• CIC Full Bench & CIC — decisional lines that define working practice: §11 third-party, §8(1)(h) investigation, §8(1)(i) cabinet, §6(3) transfer, the political-parties ruling, and recent directives on GST Council and Judicial Academies
• SICs — Maharashtra and Kerala selected landmark state rulings; expanding as coverage builds

Every case entry is:

• Editor-reviewed — we do not ingest raw scraped text. Each ratio is compressed from the reported judgment; every sub-section tag is cross-checked; every landmark flag is a deliberate editorial choice.
• Versioned — when a later ruling overtakes an earlier one (e.g., Namit Sharma → Namit Sharma Review), the superseding case is linked and the old entry is marked.
• Free to use — search is free, no login, no fee, no rate limit other than basic anti-abuse.

• Scraper-assisted expansion — automated ingestion of CIC and High Court orders with editorial review, growing the corpus to 500+ cases over 2026.
• Citation graph — each case will surface “cited in” and “overruled by” pointers.
• AI-assisted precedent match — Phase 2 of the Adjudication System: point a draft PIO reply or FAA order at the corpus and surface the closest precedents. Planned once the corpus exceeds ~200 cases.
• Download ready-to-cite snippets — two-line quotable editorial ratios for use in First / Second Appeal filings.

• Case-law search tool — facet + keyword search
• Landmark case-law library — editorial
• PIO / FAA Knowledge Base
• The RTI Act, 2005 — annotated text
• PIO / FAA CPD Course
• RTI Wiki AI chat

• Supreme Court of India — Supreme Court Reports (SCR), Supreme Court Cases (SCC), Supreme Court Judgments Database (Judis)
• High Courts — respective official judgment archives and Indian Kanoon
• Central Information Commission — https://cic.gov.in/orders
• State Information Commissions — individual state portals

Last reviewed: 21 April 2026.