University appointment records — Delhi HC

Quick Reply: Selection committee minutes for university faculty / VC appointments disclosable post-decision; §8[1][e] narrow. University faculty/VC appointment records. </WRAP>

University faculty/VC appointment records disclosable post-decision; pre-decision minutes §8(1)(e) narrow. ===== Case details ===== ^ Court | High Court of Delhi | ^ Decided | 2020-01-01 | ^ Citation | Citation awaited | ^ Petitioner | RTI applicant | ^ Respondent | Central University | ^ RTI Act sections | §8(1)(j) | ^ Outcome | Applicant allowed | ===== Outcome ===== Selection committee minutes for university faculty / VC appointments disclosable post-decision; §8(1)(e) narrow. ===== Ratio decidendi ===== Central and State Universities are public authorities. Selection committee minutes for faculty and VC appointments, the final recommendation, the successful candidate's profile, and the rank list are disclosable post-decision. Pre-decision deliberations are narrowly protected under §8(1)(e). ===== Keywords ===== university, VC appointment, Delhi HC, §8(1)(e) ===== 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. * Search-cum-Selection committee records — CIC (CIC 2016) * Meeting minutes of statutory bodies — Delhi HC (HC-DEL 2019) * State-cabinet records — §8(1)(i) applicability (CIC 2020) * IIT faculty recruitment — CIC (CIC 2022) * Cabinet note post-decision — §8(1)(i) — CIC (CIC 2022) ===== Related ===== * All High Court of Delhi rulings in the corpus * All RTI cases turning on §2 * All RTI cases turning on §8 * Full case-law search * Case-Law Database — overview * PIO RTI Reply Guide * The RTI Act, 2005 — annotated

Editorial summary · last reviewed 21 April 2026.