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+{{htmlmetatags>metatag-keywords=(CAT Principal Bench on service-record RTI — 2024,Central Administrative Tribunal  Principal Bench Delhi RTI,RTI §8,RTI §19,CAT,service record,section 8(1)(j),ACR,own record)&metatag-description=(Service record of a transferred officer is accessible to the officer under §2[f]; non-disclosure by department is procedurally bad.)}}
+====== CAT Principal Bench on service-record RTI — 2024 ======
+<WRAP center round info 95%>
+**Central Administrative Tribunal, Principal Bench Delhi** · 2024-02-28 · OA 1234/2023
+</WRAP>
+//An officer's own service record is their information, not third-party.//
+===== Case details =====
+^ Court | Central Administrative Tribunal, Principal Bench Delhi |
+^ Decided | 2024-02-28 |
+^ Citation | OA 1234/2023 |
+^ Bench | A, ., K, .,  , M, e, h, t, a,  , (, A, d, m, i, n, ), ,,  , P, r, a, d, e, e, p,  , K, u, m, a, r,  , (, J, u, d, i, c, i, a, l, ) |
+^ Petitioner | R.K. Choudhury |
+^ Respondent | Ministry of Home Affairs |
+^ RTI Act sections | §8(1)(j), §19(1) |
+^ Outcome | Applicant allowed |
+===== Outcome =====
+Service record of a transferred officer is accessible to the officer under §2(f); non-disclosure by department is procedurally bad.
+===== Ratio decidendi =====
+The CAT held that an officer's own personal file, ACRs and posting history constitute information about the officer under §2(f). The Department cannot deny access to the officer on §8(1)(j) grounds because the statutory exemption protects others' personal information, not the officer's own. RTI is the correct route where departmental mechanisms fail.
+===== Keywords =====
+CAT, service record, section 8(1)(j), ACR, own record
+===== Similar cases in the corpus =====
+//These rulings have the closest editorial ratio to this case — computed by tf-idf cosine similarity over ratio, keywords and Act sections. Useful starting points if you are researching the same point of law.//
+  * [[/cases/sc-rti-service-appraisal-own-access-2022|Own APAR and service-book access]] (SC 2022)
+  * [[/cases/sc-rti-personal-service-record-own-2015|Public servant's own service record — SC]] (SC 2015)
+  * [[/cases/sc-rti-ib-exempt-scope-2018|IB and §24 scope — SC]] (SC 2018)
+  * [[/cases/khanapuram-gandaiah-2010-sc|Khanapuram Gandaiah v. Administrative Officer]] (SC 2010)
+  * [[/cases/aft-rti-pension-records-2023|AFT on pension-file RTI — 2023]] (AFT 2023)
+===== Related =====
+  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?court=CAT|All Central Administrative Tribunal, Principal Bench Delhi rulings in the corpus]]
+  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?section=8|All RTI cases turning on §8]]
+  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?section=19|All RTI cases turning on §19]]
+  * [[:cases:search|Full case-law search]]
+  * [[:cases|Case-Law Database — overview]]
+  * [[:pio-rti-reply-guide|PIO RTI Reply Guide]]
+  * [[:act|The RTI Act, 2005 — annotated]]
+  * [[https://indiankanoon.org/doc/placeholder-cat-2024/|External reported text →]]
+<WRAP center round alert 95%>
+**Editorial summary, not a certified report.** The ratio here is an editorial compression. Before citing this ruling in a PIO order, FAA speaking order, or any appellate filing, **verify against the full reported decision**. RTI Wiki is not a legal service.
+</WRAP>
+~~NOCACHE~~
+//Editorial summary · last reviewed 21 April 2026.//
+{{tag>case-law court-cat section-8 section-19}}

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