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Caste-validity certificate records — Delhi HC

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 +{{htmlmetatags>metatag-keywords=(Caste-validity certificate records — Delhi HC,High Court of Delhi RTI,RTI §7,RTI §8,caste validity,Delhi HC,§8(1)(j),scrutiny)&metatag-description=(Own caste-validity record accessible; third-party caste-certificate verification records §8[1][j] protected. Case: Caste-validity certificate records — Delhi HC....)}}
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 +====== Caste-validity certificate records — Delhi HC ======
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 +<WRAP center round info 95%>
 +**High Court of Delhi** · 2020-01-01 · Citation awaited
 +</WRAP>
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 +**Own caste-validity record accessible; third-party caste-certificate verification records §8[1][j] protected. Own caste-validity record accessible; third-party.**
 +
 +//Own caste-validity record accessible; third-party caste certificates are §8(1)(j) protected.//
 +
 +===== Case details =====
 +
 +^ Court | High Court of Delhi |
 +^ Decided | 2020-01-01 |
 +^ Citation | Citation awaited |
 +^ Petitioner | Applicant / complainant |
 +^ Respondent | Caste Scrutiny Committee |
 +^ RTI Act sections | §8(1)(j) |
 +^ Outcome | Partly allowed |
 +
 +===== Outcome =====
 +
 +Own caste-validity record accessible; third-party caste-certificate verification records §8(1)(j) protected.
 +
 +===== Ratio decidendi =====
 +
 +A person's own caste-validity-certificate file — application, supporting documents, committee order — is disclosable to him. A third party cannot obtain another's caste-validity documents via RTI except on a §8(2) public-interest showing.
 +
 +===== Keywords =====
 +
 +caste validity, Delhi HC, §8(1)(j), scrutiny
 +
 +===== 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/hc-delhi-rti-disability-certificate-2022|Disability certificate records — Delhi HC]] (HC-DEL 2022)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-rti-ptc-transfer-certificate-2020|School transfer certificate records — CIC]] (CIC 2020)
 +  * [[/cases/hc-gauhati-rti-nrc-records-2021|NRC process records — Gauhati HC]] (HC-GAU 2021)
 +  * [[/cases/sc-rti-personal-service-record-own-2015|Public servant's own service record — SC]] (SC 2015)
 +  * [[/cases/delhi-hc-rti-aiims-pgi-2020|AIIMS / PGI medical records — Delhi HC]] (HC-DEL 2020)
 +
 +===== Related =====
 +
 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?court=HC-DEL|All High Court of Delhi rulings in the corpus]]
 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?section=7|All RTI cases turning on §7]]
 +  * [[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>
 +
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 +//Editorial summary · last reviewed 21 April 2026.//
 +
 +{{tag>case-law court-hc-del section-7 section-8}}