Witness identity protection — §8(1)(g) — CIC

Identity of witnesses and informants in active investigations protected under §8[1][g] for life and safety. §8(1)(g) protects witness/informant identity where. §8(1)(g) protects witness/informant identity where disclosure could endanger them. ===== Case details ===== ^ Court | Central Information Commission | ^ Decided | 2021-01-01 | ^ Citation | Citation awaited | ^ Petitioner | Defence counsel / RTI applicant | ^ Respondent | Investigating agency | ^ RTI Act sections | §8(1)(g) | ^ Outcome | Rejected | ===== Outcome ===== Identity of witnesses and informants in active investigations protected under §8(1)(g) for life and safety. ===== Ratio decidendi ===== §8(1)(g) protects information whose disclosure would endanger life or physical safety — including witness and informant identity in investigations. Protection continues post-investigation where the witness remains at risk. ===== Keywords ===== witness protection, §8(1)(g), CIC, informant ===== 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. * RTI whistleblower protection — §8(1)(g) (SC 2014) * Whistleblower complaint anonymity — Delhi HC (HC-DEL 2019) * Bihar PSC — interview marks disclosability (SC 2012) * Bihar Public Service Commission v. Saiyed Hussain Abbas Rizwi (SC 2012) * DGCA aircraft-incident investigation — CIC (CIC 2023) ===== Related ===== * All Central Information Commission rulings in the corpus * All RTI cases turning on §8 * Full case-law search * Case-Law Database — overview * PIO RTI Reply Guide * The RTI Act, 2005 — annotated