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NGO FCRA-compliance scrutiny — Bombay HC

MHA FCRA compliance records, including NGO-specific registrations and cancellations, are §4[1][b] material. FCRA-compliance records with MHA: §4(1)(b) disclosure.

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 +{{htmlmetatags>metatag-keywords=(NGO FCRA-compliance scrutiny — Bombay HC,High Court of Bombay RTI,RTI §4,RTI §8,FCRA,Bombay HC,MHA,NGO)&metatag-description=(MHA FCRA compliance records, including NGO-specific registrations and cancellations, are §4[1][b] material. FCRA-compliance records with MHA: §4(1)(b) disclosure.)}}
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 +====== NGO FCRA-compliance scrutiny — Bombay HC ======
 +
 +<WRAP center round info 95%>
 +**High Court of Bombay** · 2021-01-01 · Citation awaited
 +</WRAP>
 +
 +//FCRA-compliance records with MHA: §4(1)(b) disclosure (registration, cancellation, aggregate donor data).//
 +
 +===== Case details =====
 +
 +^ Court | High Court of Bombay |
 +^ Decided | 2021-01-01 |
 +^ Citation | Citation awaited |
 +^ Petitioner | RTI applicant |
 +^ Respondent | MHA |
 +^ RTI Act sections | §4(1)(b) |
 +^ Outcome | Applicant allowed |
 +
 +===== Outcome =====
 +
 +MHA FCRA compliance records, including NGO-specific registrations and cancellations, are §4(1)(b) material.
 +
 +===== Ratio decidendi =====
 +
 +Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) compliance records held by Ministry of Home Affairs — NGO registrations granted, renewed, cancelled; aggregate foreign-donor statistics; utilisation-return summaries — are §4(1)(b) material. Individual NGO FC-4 returns are disclosable subject to narrow §8(1)(d) commercial carve-outs.
 +
 +===== Keywords =====
 +
 +FCRA, Bombay HC, MHA, NGO
 +
 +===== 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-foreign-contribution-annual-reports-2022|FCRA annual reports aggregate disclosure — CIC]] (CIC 2022)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-foreign-aid-ngo-2017|Foreign-funded NGOs — FCRA + RTI]] (CIC 2017)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-foreign-contribution-ngo-returns-2019|FCRA returns of NGOs — CIC]] (CIC 2019)
 +  * [[/cases/sc-section-2-h-ngo-receipt-2014|§2(h) applied to grant-receiving NGO]] (SC 2014)
 +  * [[/cases/hc-rajasthan-rti-ngt-compliance-2021|NGT order compliance records — Rajasthan HC]] (HC-RAJ 2021)
 +
 +===== Related =====
 +
 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?court=HC-BOM|All High Court of Bombay rulings in the corpus]]
 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?section=4|All RTI cases turning on §4]]
 +  * [[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-bom section-4 section-8}}