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Parliamentary committee deliberations protected under §8[1][c] — breach of parliamentary privilege. §8(1)(c) protects parliamentary committee deliberations;.

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 +====== Parliamentary committee records — Delhi HC ======
 +
 +<WRAP center round info 95%>
 +**High Court of Delhi** · 2017-01-01 · Citation awaited
 +</WRAP>
 +
 +//§8(1)(c) protects parliamentary committee deliberations; breach-of-privilege is a statutory bar to disclosure.//
 +
 +===== Case details =====
 +
 +^ Court | High Court of Delhi |
 +^ Decided | 2017-01-01 |
 +^ Citation | Citation awaited |
 +^ Petitioner | RTI applicant |
 +^ Respondent | Lok Sabha Secretariat |
 +^ RTI Act sections | §8(1)(c) |
 +^ Outcome | Rejected |
 +
 +===== Outcome =====
 +
 +Parliamentary committee deliberations protected under §8(1)(c) — breach of parliamentary privilege.
 +
 +===== Ratio decidendi =====
 +
 +Internal deliberations of Parliamentary Committees are protected under §8(1)(c) — 'breach of privilege of Parliament or the State Legislature'. The Committee's final report, once tabled, is a public document; internal drafts and witness records remain protected.
 +
 +===== Keywords =====
 +
 +parliamentary committee, §8(1)(c), privilege, Delhi HC
 +
 +===== 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-parliament-secretariat-2019|Parliament Secretariat RTI scope — CIC]] (CIC 2019)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-rti-appointment-committees-2016|Search-cum-Selection committee records — CIC]] (CIC 2016)
 +  * [[/cases/hc-manipur-rti-assembly-records-2021|Assembly proceedings and constituency-fund records — Manipur HC]] (HC-MN 2021)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-rti-cag-reports-2021|CAG audit reports — CIC]] (CIC 2021)
 +  * [[/cases/delhi-hc-rti-university-appointments-2020|University appointment 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=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-hc-del section-8}}