RTI Case Database — Faceted Search across 397+ Rulings

An editor-curated, search-ready case-law corpus 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. Type a keyword in the box above (parties, citation, ratio, e.g. fiduciary, cabinet, §8(1)(j)) or pick filters from the left sidebar.
2. Use the Landmark rulings only toggle to narrow to the ~38 most-cited authorities every PIO, FAA and RTI advocate should know.
3. Click a result to open the full editorial summary, with cross-links to related rulings and (where available) the reported judgment on Indian Kanoon or Supreme Court Judis.
4. Sort by Landmark first, Most recent, or Oldest first.

• Every §8(1)(j) ruling — pick “§8” in the section facet, then type 8(1)(j) in the keyword box.
• Every Delhi High Court ruling — pick “Delhi HC” in the Court facet.
• Post-DPDP-2025 rulings — set Year from = 2025, keyword personal information.
• Applicant-friendly Supreme Court precedents for First Appeals — Outcome = “Applicant allowed” + Court = SC.

• 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, Kerala, Karnataka and other state landmark 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 ~500 cases.
• Download ready-to-cite snippets — two-line quotable editorial ratios for use in First / Second Appeal filings.

Download the 40 landmark rulings as 2-line quotable blocks — plain-text, JSON, CSV and printable A4 HTML formats. Drop directly into First Appeal / Second Appeal filings, PIO orders, FAA speaking orders, or writ petitions.

• Landmark case-law library — editorial
• PIO / FAA Knowledge Base
• The RTI Act, 2005 — annotated text
• PIO / FAA CPD Course
• RTI Wiki AI chat
• First Appeal Builder
• Citation Formatter

• 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: 14 May 2026.