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+{{htmlmetatags>metatag-keywords=(Political Parties as 'Public Authorities' — CIC Full Bench 2013,Central Information Commission (Full Bench) RTI,RTI §2,political parties,public authority,§2(h),CIC Full Bench)&metatag-description=(CIC held six national political parties to be 'public authorities' under §2[h]. Parties have not complied. Six national political parties ruled public authorities.)}}
+====== Political Parties as 'Public Authorities' — CIC Full Bench 2013 ======
+<WRAP center round info 95%>
+**Central Information Commission (Full Bench)** · 2013-06-03 · File Nos. CIC/SM/C/2011/000838 and 001386 · **★ Landmark**
+</WRAP>
+**CIC held six national political parties to be 'public authorities' under §2[h]. Parties have not complied. Six national political parties ruled public authorities.**
+//Six national political parties ruled public authorities under §2(h); compliance remains unresolved.//
+===== Case details =====
+^ Court | Central Information Commission (Full Bench) |
+^ Decided | 2013-06-03 |
+^ Citation | File Nos. CIC/SM/C/2011/000838 and CIC/SM/C/2011/001386 (Full Bench, decided 03-06-2013) |
+^ Petitioner | Subhash Chandra Agrawal and Anil Bairwal |
+^ Respondent | 6 National Political Parties |
+^ RTI Act sections | §2(h) |
+^ Outcome | Applicant allowed |
+===== Outcome =====
+CIC held six national political parties to be 'public authorities' under §2(h). Parties have not complied.
+===== Ratio decidendi =====
+Political parties receive substantial indirect financing (tax exemptions, concessional land, free air-time). They are public authorities under §2(h) and answerable under RTI.
+===== Keywords =====
+political parties, public authority, §2(h), CIC Full Bench
+===== This case cites =====
+  * [[/important-decisions/thalappalam-coop-vs-state-of-kerala|Thalappalam Service Coop Bank v. State of Kerala]] (SC 2013)
+===== Later rulings that cite this case =====
+  * [[/cases/kerala-hc-political-parties-2015|Political party accounts — Kerala HC 2015]] (HC-KER 2015)
+===== 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/kerala-hc-political-parties-2015|Political party accounts — Kerala HC 2015]] (HC-KER 2015)
+  * [[/cases/cic-iota-v-harinder-dhingra-2013|Indian Olympic Association v. Harinder Dhingra]] (CIC 2013)
+  * [[/important-decisions/electoral-bonds-adr-2024|ADR v. Union of India (Electoral Bonds)]] (SC 2024)
+  * [[/cases/delhi-hc-rti-sports-body-2018|National sports federations — Delhi HC]] (HC-DEL 2018)
+  * [[/cases/sc-natural-justice-rti-commission-hearing-2020|Natural justice in Information Commission hearings]] (SC 2020)
+===== Source =====
+  * [[https://indiankanoon.org/doc/189425125/|Full Bench order on Indian Kanoon (3 June 2013)]]
+===== Related =====
+  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?court=CIC|All Central Information Commission (Full Bench) rulings in the corpus]]
+  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?section=2|All RTI cases turning on §2]]
+  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?landmark=1|All landmark rulings]]
+  * [[: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]]
+<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>
+//Editorial summary · last reviewed 21 April 2026.//
+{{tag>case-law court-cic section-2 landmark}}