CVC / vigilance circulars — CIC

Quick Reply: CVC circulars, vigilance guidelines, and disciplinary policy documents are public records disclosable under §4. CVC / vigilance POLICY circulars are §4 public. </WRAP>

CVC / vigilance POLICY circulars are §4 public records; individual case files remain §8(1)(h) protected during pendency. ===== Case details ===== ^ Court | Central Information Commission | ^ Decided | 2020-01-01 | ^ Citation | Citation awaited | ^ Petitioner | RTI applicant | ^ Respondent | CVC / vigilance unit | ^ RTI Act sections | §8(1)(h) | ^ Outcome | Applicant allowed | ===== Outcome ===== CVC circulars, vigilance guidelines, and disciplinary policy documents are public records disclosable under §4. ===== Ratio decidendi ===== CVC circulars, vigilance manual updates, and disciplinary-policy guidelines govern the public authority's own functioning and are disclosable under §4(1)(b)(v) (rules, regulations, instructions). Individual vigilance case files remain protected under §8(1)(h) during pendency and §8(1)(j) thereafter. ===== Keywords ===== CVC, vigilance circulars, §4(1)(b)(v), CIC ===== 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. * Vigilance investigation records — Delhi HC (HC-DEL 2015) * PDS leakage investigation — Rajasthan SIC (SIC-RJ 2021) * LIC policy-holder records — CIC (CIC 2021) * Service book disclosure to public servant — Kerala HC (HC-KER 2021) * CBIC customs-duty classification — CIC (CIC 2020) ===== Related ===== * All Central Information Commission rulings in the corpus * All RTI cases turning on §4 * All RTI cases turning on §7 * All RTI cases turning on §8 * Full case-law search * Case-Law Database — overview * PIO RTI Reply Guide * The RTI Act, 2005 — annotated

Editorial summary · last reviewed 21 April 2026.