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Urban Co-operative Bank records — Karnataka HC 2024

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 +{{htmlmetatags>metatag-keywords=(Urban Co-operative Bank records — Karnataka HC 2024,High Court of Karnataka RTI,RTI §2,RTI §8,UCB,co-operative bank,section 2(h),Jayantilal Mistry,Registrar)&metatag-description=(Registrar's inspection reports of UCBs are §2[h] information; individual depositor data remains fiduciary. Co-op regulatory oversight is transparent; member data.)}}
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 +====== Urban Co-operative Bank records — Karnataka HC 2024 ======
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 +**High Court of Karnataka** · 2024-05-15 · 2024 SCC OnLine Kar 1567
 +</WRAP>
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 +**Registrar's inspection reports of UCBs are §2[h] information; individual depositor data remains fiduciary. Co-op regulatory oversight is transparent; member data.**
 +
 +//Co-op regulatory oversight is transparent; member data is fiduciary.//
 +
 +===== Case details =====
 +
 +^ Court | High Court of Karnataka |
 +^ Decided | 2024-05-15 |
 +^ Citation | 2024 SCC OnLine Kar 1567 |
 +^ Bench | K, r, i, s, h, n, a,  , S, .,  , D, i, x, i, t,  , J |
 +^ Petitioner | UCB Depositors' Assoc |
 +^ Respondent | Registrar Co-op Societies |
 +^ RTI Act sections | §2(h), §8(1)(e) |
 +^ Outcome | partly allowed |
 +
 +===== Outcome =====
 +
 +Registrar's inspection reports of UCBs are §2(h) information; individual depositor data remains fiduciary.
 +
 +===== Ratio decidendi =====
 +
 +The Registrar of Co-operative Societies inspection reports of Urban Co-operative Banks are regulatory-authority records under §2(h). Inspection findings, audit observations and compliance-default lists are disclosable under //Jayantilal Mistry//. Individual depositor account details remain §8(1)(e).
 +
 +===== Keywords =====
 +
 +UCB, co-operative bank, section 2(h), Jayantilal Mistry, Registrar
 +
 +===== 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.//
 +
 +  * [[/important-decisions/rbi-vs-jayantilal-mistry|Reserve Bank of India v. Jayantilal N. Mistry]] (SC 2015)
 +  * [[/cases/reserve-bank-of-india-v-jayantilal-mistry-cic|Reserve Bank of India — PIO's information denial (CIC)]] (CIC 2011)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-inspection-records-medical-2018|Hospital inspection reports — CIC]] (CIC 2018)
 +  * [[/cases/hc-bombay-rti-cooperative-bank-fraud-2022|Cooperative bank fraud investigation — Bombay HC]] (HC-BOM 2022)
 +  * [[/cases/raj-narain-inspection-of-records-cic|Inspection of records under RTI — CIC guidance]] (CIC 2013)
 +
 +===== Related =====
 +
 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?court=HC-KAR|All High Court of Karnataka 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]]
 +  * [[https://indiankanoon.org/doc/placeholder-hc-kar-ucb-2024/|External reported text →]]
 +
 +<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>
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 +
 +//Editorial summary · last reviewed 21 April 2026.//
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 +{{tag>case-law court-hc-kar section-2 section-8}}