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 +{{htmlmetatags>metatag-keywords=(S Dinesh v. Reserve Bank Of India — CIC 2023,Central Information Commission RTI,RTI §8,reserve,bank,of,india)&metatag-description=(S Dinesh v. RBI, CIC 2023: partly allowed — the personal part stayed behind the privacy exemption, the rest was ordered out. Severance working at the RBI.)}}
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 +====== S Dinesh v. Reserve Bank Of India — CIC 2023 ======
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 +{{ :social:auto:cases-cic-s-dinesh-v-reserve-bank-of-india-2023-179570.png?direct&1200 |S Dinesh v. Reserve Bank Of India — CIC 2023 — RTI Wiki}}
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 +<WRAP center round info 95%>
 +**Quick Reply:** **Partly allowed** (29 September 2023): the personal-information part of the request stayed behind **§8(1)(j)**, the rest was directed for disclosure. That is the Act's design working — **sever the exempt, supply the rest** (§10) — and at the RBI, an authority with a long disclosure tradition before the Commission. Draft your queries severable and a partial win is the default outcome.
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 +**Central Information Commission** · 2023-09-29 · CIC File No. IK/179570290
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 +**Appeal partly allowed by the Commission. Read the full guide on RTI Wiki — India's independent Right to Information reference.**
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 +//Information denied under section 8(1)(j)//
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 +===== Case details =====
 +
 +^ Court | Central Information Commission |
 +^ Decided | 2023-09-29 |
 +^ Citation | CIC File No. IK/179570290 |
 +^ Bench | CIC Single Bench |
 +^ Petitioner | S Dinesh |
 +^ Respondent | Reserve Bank Of India |
 +^ RTI Act sections | §8(1) |
 +^ Outcome | partly allowed |
 +
 +===== Outcome =====
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 +Appeal partly allowed by the Commission
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 +===== Reading the order =====
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 +  * **File:** CIC No. IK/179570290, 29 September 2023 — the RBI stream of second appeals.
 +  * **Held:** information denied under **§8(1)(j)** as to the personal component; the appeal **partly allowed** — the disclosable remainder directed to be supplied.
 +
 +===== Why partly allowed is the normal good outcome =====
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 +  * **§10 severance** exists exactly for this: the record is released to the extent the exemption does not reach (see [[:act:section-10|Section 10]]).
 +  * **Query design decides the split**: ask your questions in independent, severable units — status of a file, dates, rules applied, aggregate numbers — so exempt personal details cannot sink the whole request.
 +  * **RBI context:** the Commission has repeatedly pushed RBI toward disclosure of its supervisory and policy material — a line of authority summarised on our [[:important-decisions:start|landmark decisions]] page. The personal-information cut remains where identified individuals' data is the subject.
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 +===== Ratio decidendi =====
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 +Personal information of identified individuals denied under §8(1)(j); the remaining, severable information directed for disclosure — appeal partly allowed.
 +
 +===== Keywords =====
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 +reserve, bank, of, india
 +
 +===== 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.//
 +
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 +  * [[/cases/cic-s-k-maheshwari-v-reserve-bank-of-india-2023-324420|S K Maheshwari v. Reserve Bank Of India — CIC 2023]] (CIC 2023)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-shishir-gupta-v-reserve-bank-of-india-2022-119702|Shishir Gupta v. Reserve Bank Of India — CIC 2022]] (CIC 2022)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-padmini-vora-v-reserve-bank-of-india-2022-181053|Padmini Vora v. Reserve Bank Of India — CIC 2022]] (CIC 2022)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-mahesh-kumar-goyal-v-reserve-bank-of-india-2022-125718|Mahesh Kumar Goyal v. Reserve Bank Of India — CIC 2022]] (CIC 2022)
 +
 +===== 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]]
 +  * [[https://indiankanoon.org/doc/179570290/|External reported text →]]
 +  * [[/book|The RTI Playbook book]]
 +
 +===== FAQs =====
 +==== My whole request was refused citing the privacy exemption — is that it? ====
 +No: press severance in the first appeal — the refusal must reach only what the exemption actually covers, not the file around it.
 +==== How do I ask severable questions? ====
 +One fact per query, no compound asks: "date of the decision", "the rule relied on", "the number of accounts affected" — each stands or falls alone.
 +==== Does RBI disclose anything at all? ====
 +Yes — policy, circulars, supervisory findings in aggregate and much else; the Commission's RBI line of decisions is one of the strongest pro-disclosure streams.
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 +<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.
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 +//Editorial summary · expanded 27 August 2026; junk description rebuilt; severance practice and query design added.//
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 +{{tag>case-law court-cic section-8}}