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Political Parties as 'Public Authorities' — CIC Full Bench 2013

CIC held six national political parties to be 'public authorities' under §2[h]. Parties have not complied. Six national political parties ruled public authorities.

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 +====== Political Parties as 'Public Authorities' — CIC Full Bench 2013 ======
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 +<WRAP center round info 95%>
 +**Central Information Commission (Full Bench)** · 2013-06-03 · Citation awaited · **★ Landmark**
 +</WRAP>
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 +**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 | Citation awaited |
 +^ Petitioner | Subhash Chandra Agarwal et al. |
 +^ 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)
 +
 +===== Related =====
 +
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 +  * [[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>
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 +//Editorial summary · last reviewed 21 April 2026.//
 +
 +{{tag>case-law court-cic section-2 landmark}}