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Foreign-government confidential communications — §8(1)(f) — CIC

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 +====== Foreign-government confidential communications — §8(1)(f) — CIC ======
 +
 +<WRAP center round info 95%>
 +**Central Information Commission** · 2019-01-01 · Citation awaited
 +</WRAP>
 +
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 +**Information received in confidence from foreign governments protected under §8[1][f] regardless of age. §8(1)(f) protects information received in confidence from.**
 +
 +//§8(1)(f) protects information received in confidence from foreign governments — duration-agnostic.//
 +
 +===== Case details =====
 +
 +^ Court | Central Information Commission |
 +^ Decided | 2019-01-01 |
 +^ Citation | Citation awaited |
 +^ Petitioner | Researcher |
 +^ Respondent | Ministry of External Affairs / Central Government |
 +^ RTI Act sections | §8(1)(f) |
 +^ Outcome | Rejected |
 +
 +===== Outcome =====
 +
 +Information received in confidence from foreign governments protected under §8(1)(f) regardless of age.
 +
 +===== Ratio decidendi =====
 +
 +§8(1)(f) protects information received in confidence from foreign governments without a time-limit. The §8(3) 20-year sunset explicitly excludes §8(1)(a), (c), (i) but §8(1)(f) is not listed — however, the confidentiality undertaking typically survives longer than any sunset.
 +
 +===== Keywords =====
 +
 +foreign confidential, §8(1)(f), 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.//
 +
 +  * [[/cases/cic-rti-pmo-records-2019|PMO records scope — CIC]] (CIC 2019)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-minister-foreign-travel-2013|Minister's foreign-travel records — CIC]] (CIC 2013)
 +  * [[/cases/delhi-hc-rti-rti-by-rti-2018|RTI about RTI — meta-RTI disclosure]] (HC-DEL 2018)
 +  * [[/cases/sc-section-3-citizen-not-person-2012|§3 — right available to 'citizens', not 'persons']] (SC 2012)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-foreign-aid-ngo-2017|Foreign-funded NGOs — FCRA + RTI]] (CIC 2017)
 +
 +===== Related =====
 +
 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?court=CIC|All Central Information Commission rulings in the corpus]]
 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?section=8|All RTI cases turning on §8]]
 +  * [[: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-8}}