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Private contractor records with govt — Delhi HC

Records in possession of a public authority pertaining to a private contractor are 'information' under §2[f]; contractor is a third party under §11.

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 +{{htmlmetatags>metatag-keywords=(Private contractor records with govt — Delhi HC,High Court of Delhi RTI,RTI §2,RTI §8,contractor,Delhi HC,§2(f),§11)&metatag-description=(Records in possession of a public authority pertaining to a private contractor are 'information' under §2[f]; contractor is a third party under §11.)}}
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 +====== Private contractor records with govt — Delhi HC ======
 +
 +<WRAP center round info 95%>
 +**High Court of Delhi** · 2019-01-01 · Citation awaited
 +</WRAP>
 +
 +//Contractor records held by a public authority are §2(f) information; disclose subject to §11 notice.//
 +
 +===== Case details =====
 +
 +^ Court | High Court of Delhi |
 +^ Decided | 2019-01-01 |
 +^ Citation | Citation awaited |
 +^ Petitioner | RTI applicant |
 +^ Respondent | Public authority |
 +^ RTI Act sections | §2(f) |
 +^ Outcome | Applicant allowed |
 +
 +===== Outcome =====
 +
 +Records in possession of a public authority pertaining to a private contractor are 'information' under §2(f); contractor is a third party under §11.
 +
 +===== Ratio decidendi =====
 +
 +Records of a private contractor in the possession of a public authority — tender bids, performance reports, payment schedules — are 'information' under §2(f). The contractor is a 'third party' under §11, and §11 notice is required before disclosure.
 +
 +===== Keywords =====
 +
 +contractor, Delhi HC, §2(f), §11
 +
 +===== 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/sic-tn-municipal-works-2021|Municipal works records — Tamil Nadu SIC]] (SIC-TN 2021)
 +  * [[/cases/muniyappan-third-party-cic|Muniyappan standard — §11 third-party notice]] (CIC 2010)
 +  * [[/cases/hc-tripura-rti-civil-works-2022|Civil works contract records — Tripura HC]] (HC-TR 2022)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-rti-third-party-fee-bearing-2019|§11 third-party cost-bearing — CIC]] (CIC 2019)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-rti-smart-city-project-2021|Smart-city project details — CIC]] (CIC 2021)
 +
 +===== Related =====
 +
 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?court=HC-DEL|All High Court of Delhi rulings in the corpus]]
 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?section=2|All RTI cases turning on §2]]
 +  * [[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-2 section-8}}