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+{{htmlmetatags>metatag-keywords=(PIO designation and accountability — Delhi HC,High Court of Delhi RTI,RTI §5,RTI §20,§5,PIO designation,Delhi HC,§20)&metatag-description=(Public authority that fails to designate a PIO under §5 cannot be relieved of §7[1] obligations.)}}
+====== PIO designation and accountability — Delhi HC ======
+<WRAP center round info 95%>
+**High Court of Delhi** · 2016-01-01 · Citation awaited
+</WRAP>
+//Non-designation of PIO under §5 is no defence; §7(1) obligations bind the public authority itself.//
+===== Case details =====
+^ Court | High Court of Delhi |
+^ Decided | 2016-01-01 |
+^ Citation | Citation awaited |
+^ Petitioner | RTI applicant |
+^ Respondent | Public authority |
+^ RTI Act sections | §5, §20 |
+^ Outcome | Applicant allowed |
+===== Outcome =====
+Public authority that fails to designate a PIO under §5 cannot be relieved of §7(1) obligations.
+===== Ratio decidendi =====
+Where a public authority has failed to designate a PIO under §5, the statutory obligations under §7(1) continue to bind the public authority. Failure attracts §20 liability traceable to the Head of Institution.
+===== Keywords =====
+§5, PIO designation, Delhi HC, §20
+===== 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-ineligible-pio-notice-2020|PIO unavailable — Head-of-Institution vicarious liability]] (CIC 2020)
+  * [[/important-decisions/court/arvind-kejriwal-vs-cpio|Arvind Kejriwal v. CPIO]] (HC-DEL 2010)
+  * [[/cases/calcutta-hc-rti-pio-transfer-2019|PIO transfer during pendency — Calcutta HC]] (HC-CAL 2019)
+  * [[/cases/delhi-hc-rti-posting-transfer-2019|Public servant posting/transfer orders — Delhi HC]] (HC-DEL 2019)
+  * [[/cases/cic-rti-dinner-break-workdays-pio-2019|Timing of PIO availability — CIC]] (CIC 2019)
+===== Related =====
+  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?court=HC-DEL|All High Court of Delhi rulings in the corpus]]
+  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?section=5|All RTI cases turning on §5]]
+  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?section=20|All RTI cases turning on §20]]
+  * [[: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>
+~~NOCACHE~~
+//Editorial summary · last reviewed 21 April 2026.//
+{{tag>case-law court-hc-del section-5 section-20}}

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