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 +{{htmlmetatags>metatag-keywords=(Namit Sharma v. Union of India,Supreme Court of India RTI,RTI §12,RTI §15,RTI §16,Information Commission,appointment,qualifications,§12,§15)&metatag-description=(Information Commissioner appointments require judicial benches; subsequently diluted on review. Qualification & composition of Information Commissions revisited;.)}}
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 +====== Namit Sharma v. Union of India ======
 +
 +<WRAP center round info 95%>
 +**Supreme Court of India** · 2012-09-13 · (2013) 1 SCC 745 · **★ Landmark**
 +</WRAP>
 +
 +//Qualification & composition of Information Commissions revisited; two-member bench rule later relaxed.//
 +
 +===== Case details =====
 +
 +^ Court | Supreme Court of India |
 +^ Decided | 2012-09-13 |
 +^ Citation | (2013) 1 SCC 745 |
 +^ Bench | A.K. Patnaik, S.J. Mukhopadhaya |
 +^ Petitioner | Namit Sharma |
 +^ Respondent | Union of India |
 +^ RTI Act sections | §12, §15, §16 |
 +^ Outcome | Partly allowed |
 +
 +===== Outcome =====
 +
 +Information Commissioner appointments require judicial benches; subsequently diluted on review.
 +
 +===== Ratio decidendi =====
 +
 +Information Commissions exercise quasi-judicial functions; initial ruling required judicial-benched two-member panels. Review in 2013 relaxed the strict judicial-qualification requirement.
 +
 +===== Keywords =====
 +
 +Information Commission, appointment, qualifications, §12, §15
 +
 +===== Later rulings that cite this case =====
 +
 +  * [[/cases/uoi-v-namit-sharma-review-2013-sc|Union of India v. Namit Sharma (Review)]] (SC 2013)
 +  * [[/important-decisions/court/anjali-bhardwaj-vs-union-of-india|Anjali Bhardwaj v. Union of India]] (SC 2019)
 +
 +===== Overruled by / modified by =====
 +
 +//This ruling has been overruled, modified, or substantially diluted by later authority. See:-//
 +
 +  * [[/cases/uoi-v-namit-sharma-review-2013-sc|Union of India v. Namit Sharma (Review)]] (SC 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/uoi-v-namit-sharma-review-2013-sc|Union of India v. Namit Sharma (Review)]] (SC 2013)
 +  * [[/cases/khanapuram-gandaiah-2010-sc|Khanapuram Gandaiah v. Administrative Officer]] (SC 2010)
 +  * [[/cases/sc-natural-justice-rti-commission-hearing-2020|Natural justice in Information Commission hearings]] (SC 2020)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-judicial-academies-2020|Judicial Academies under RTI — CIC]] (CIC 2020)
 +  * [[/cases/sc-rti-judicial-delay-information-2023|Judicial-delay records — SC]] (SC 2023)
 +
 +===== Related =====
 +
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 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?section=15|All RTI cases turning on §15]]
 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?section=16|All RTI cases turning on §16]]
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 +  * [[: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-sc section-12 section-15 section-16 landmark}}