RTI about RTI — meta-RTI disclosure

Quick Reply: Statistics of RTIs received / decided, and aggregate application data, are public records. Meta-RTI statistics (received, decided, rejected, transferred) are. </WRAP>

Meta-RTI statistics (received, decided, rejected, transferred) are public records under §4 / §7. ===== Case details ===== ^ Court | High Court of Delhi | ^ Decided | 2018-01-01 | ^ Citation | Citation awaited | ^ Petitioner | RTI applicant | ^ Respondent | PIO | ^ RTI Act sections | §2, §4, §7 | ^ Outcome | Applicant allowed | ===== Outcome ===== Statistics of RTIs received / decided, and aggregate application data, are public records. ===== Ratio decidendi ===== Aggregate statistics of RTI applications received, decided, rejected, transferred, and average response time are records of the public authority's own functioning. They are disclosable under §4(1)(b) and §7; individual applicant identity remains protected under §8(1)(j). ===== Keywords ===== meta-RTI, statistics, Delhi HC, §4 ===== 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. * NRC aggregate statistics — Gauhati HC (HC-GAU 2022) * Judicial-delay records — SC (SC 2023) * Foreign-government confidential communications — §8(1)(f) — CIC (CIC 2019) * FCRA annual reports aggregate disclosure — CIC (CIC 2022) * Jan Dhan account opening records — Bihar SIC (SIC-BR 2022) ===== Related ===== * All High Court of Delhi rulings in the corpus * All RTI cases turning on §2 * All RTI cases turning on §4 * All RTI cases turning on §7 * Full case-law search * Case-Law Database — overview * PIO RTI Reply Guide * The RTI Act, 2005 — annotated

Editorial summary · last reviewed 21 April 2026.