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Political party accounts — Kerala HC 2015

HC held State units of political parties not 'public authorities' — contrast with CIC 2013 Full Bench. State units of political parties held NOT public authorities.

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 +{{htmlmetatags>metatag-keywords=(Political party accounts — Kerala HC 2015,High Court of Kerala RTI,RTI §2,political parties,Kerala HC,§2(h),state units)&metatag-description=(HC held State units of political parties not 'public authorities' — contrast with CIC 2013 Full Bench. State units of political parties held NOT public authorities.)}}
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 +====== Political party accounts — Kerala HC 2015 ======
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 +<WRAP center round info 95%>
 +**High Court of Kerala** · 2015-01-01 · Citation awaited
 +</WRAP>
 +
 +//State units of political parties held NOT public authorities under §2(h) — contrast with CIC ruling.//
 +
 +===== Case details =====
 +
 +^ Court | High Court of Kerala |
 +^ Decided | 2015-01-01 |
 +^ Citation | Citation awaited |
 +^ Petitioner | RTI applicant |
 +^ Respondent | Political party state unit |
 +^ RTI Act sections | §2(h) |
 +^ Outcome | Rejected |
 +
 +===== Outcome =====
 +
 +HC held State units of political parties not 'public authorities' — contrast with CIC 2013 Full Bench.
 +
 +===== Ratio decidendi =====
 +
 +The Kerala High Court held that State units of political parties are not 'public authorities' under §2(h). This contrasts with the CIC's Full Bench ruling of 2013 which held six national political parties to be public authorities. The conflict remains unresolved at the SC.
 +
 +===== Keywords =====
 +
 +political parties, Kerala HC, §2(h), state units
 +
 +===== This case cites =====
 +
 +  * [[/important-decisions/thalappalam-coop-vs-state-of-kerala|Thalappalam Service Coop Bank v. State of Kerala]] (SC 2013)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-political-parties-2013|Political Parties as 'Public Authorities' — CIC Full Bench 2013]] (CIC 2013)
 +
 +===== 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-political-parties-2013|Political Parties as 'Public Authorities' — CIC Full Bench 2013]] (CIC 2013)
 +  * [[/important-decisions/electoral-bonds-adr-2024|ADR v. Union of India (Electoral Bonds)]] (SC 2024)
 +  * [[/cases/hc-kerala-rti-beverage-corporation-2022|Kerala Beverage Corp records — Kerala HC]] (HC-KER 2022)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-judicial-academies-2020|Judicial Academies under RTI — CIC]] (CIC 2020)
 +  * [[/cases/kerala-hc-cooperative-banks-rti-2017|Cooperative banks under RTI — Kerala HC]] (HC-KER 2017)
 +
 +===== Related =====
 +
 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?court=HC-KER|All High Court of Kerala rulings in the corpus]]
 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?section=2|All RTI cases turning on §2]]
 +  * [[: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-ker section-2}}