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 +{{htmlmetatags>metatag-keywords=(Ashutosh Gautam v. Central Information Commission — CIC 2023,Central Information Commission RTI,RTI §18,RTI §19,central,information,commission)&metatag-description=(Ashutosh Gautam v. CIC, 2023: a second appeal disposed with directions on severance and third-party notice — the procedural checklist your own appeal must survive.)}}
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 +====== Ashutosh Gautam v. Central Information Commission — CIC 2023 ======
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 +{{ :social:auto:cases-cic-ashutosh-gautam-v-central-information-commission-2023-847630.png?direct&1200 |Ashutosh Gautam v. Central Information Commission — CIC 2023 — RTI Wiki}}
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 +<WRAP center round info 95%>
 +**Quick Reply:** A second appeal decided on **procedure**: the Commission disposed of it with directions on **§10 severance** and **§11 third-party notice** compliance. The lesson for every appellant — appeals are won and lost on the **paperwork sequence**: was the third party noticed, was the severable part separated, was each ground answered? Get that checklist right and the merits take care of themselves.
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 +<WRAP center round info 95%>
 +**Central Information Commission** · 2023-01-16 · CIC File No. IK/84763035
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 +**Considered a procedural second-appeal matter before the Central Information Commission. Considered a procedural second-appeal matter before the Central Information.**
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 +//Considered a procedural second-appeal matter before the Central Information Commission.//
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 +===== Case details =====
 +
 +^ Court | Central Information Commission |
 +^ Decided | 2023-01-16 |
 +^ Citation | CIC File No. IK/84763035 |
 +^ Bench | CIC Single Bench |
 +^ Petitioner | Ashutosh Gautam |
 +^ Respondent | Central Information Commission |
 +^ RTI Act sections | §19(3) |
 +^ Outcome | partly allowed |
 +
 +===== Outcome =====
 +
 +Considered a procedural second-appeal matter before the Central Information Commission.
 +
 +===== Reading the order =====
 +
 +  * The Commission exercised its **§19(3)** power to dispose of the second appeal — with directions on two procedural duties:
 +  * **§10 severance** — the disclosable part of a record must be separated out and supplied even where part is exempt;
 +  * **§11 third-party notice** — where information involves a third party who treated it as confidential, the notice-and-opportunity procedure must actually have run before disclosure or rejection.
 +
 +===== The appellant's checklist this order enforces =====
 +
 +  1. **Plead severance expressly** — "to the extent any portion is exempt, the remainder be provided under §10."
 +  2. **Track the §11 trail** — if a third-party notice was issued, ask for its copy, the response and the PIO's reasoned weightage.
 +  3. **Demand reasons** — §19(8)(a) directions live on reasons recorded, not conclusions asserted.
 +  4. **Dress the appeal as a sequence**: application → reply → first appeal → order → the specific default at each step.
 +
 +===== Ratio decidendi =====
 +
 +Second appeal disposed under §19(3) with directions on §10 severance and §11 third-party-notice compliance — procedure enforced as the path to the right.
 +
 +===== Keywords =====
 +
 +central, information, commission
 +
 +===== 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/cic-v-krishna-kumar-v-central-vigilance-commission-2022-107700|V Krishna Kumar v. Central Vigilance Commission — CIC 2022]] (CIC 2022)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-amit-kumar-srivastava-v-central-vigilance-commission-2022-132956|Amit Kumar Srivastava v. Central Vigilance Commission — CIC 2022]] (CIC 2022)
 +  * [[/cases/chief-information-commissioner-v-state-of-manipur-2011-sc|Chief Information Commissioner v. State of Manipur]] (SC 2011)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-om-prakash-kashiram-v-central-board-of-indirect-taxe-2022-128735|Om Prakash Kashiram v. Central Board Of Indirect Taxes — CIC 2022]] (CIC 2022)
 +  * [[/cases/sc-delay-condonation-second-appeal-2022|Condonation of delay in §19(3) Second Appeal]] (SC 2022)
 +
 +===== Related =====
 +
 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?court=CIC|All Central Information Commission rulings in the corpus]]
 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?section=18|All RTI cases turning on §18]]
 +  * [[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/84763035/|External reported text →]]
 +  * [[/book|The RTI Playbook book]]
 +
 +===== FAQs =====
 +==== What is severance in one line? ====
 +Give me the part the exemption does not cover — blackline the rest.
 +==== When is a third-party notice required? ====
 +Where the information was supplied by a third party in confidence, or discloses their interests — the PIO must give them a say before deciding (§11(1)).
 +==== The PIO skipped the notice and refused anyway — remedy? ====
 +That is a procedural illegality: first appeal on the skipped §11, and the Commission can order the process run afresh.
 +==== Does this apply to State appeals too? ====
 +The sections are central-and-state — the same §10/§11 checklist travels to any SIC.
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 +<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>
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 +//Editorial summary · expanded 27 August 2026; truncated description completed; the s.10/s.11 appellate checklist drawn from the recorded ratio.//
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 +{{tag>case-law court-cic section-18 section-19}}