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 +{{htmlmetatags>metatag-keywords=(CJI office — collegium recommendations & resolutions,Supreme Court of India (Constitution Bench) RTI,RTI §8,collegium,judicial appointments,§8(1)(j),CJI office)&metatag-description=(Collegium resolutions announced are public; internal files protected under §8[1][j] subject to public-interest balancing.)}}
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 +====== CJI office — collegium recommendations & resolutions ======
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 +**Supreme Court of India (Constitution Bench)** · 2019-11-13 · (2020) 5 SCC 481 · **★ Landmark**
 +</WRAP>
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 +//Collegium's final resolutions disclosable; internal deliberative records subject to §8(1)(j) balancing.//
 +
 +===== Case details =====
 +
 +^ Court | Supreme Court of India (Constitution Bench) |
 +^ Decided | 2019-11-13 |
 +^ Citation | (2020) 5 SCC 481 |
 +^ Bench | Ranjan Gogoi, N.V. Ramana, D.Y. Chandrachud, Deepak Gupta, Sanjiv Khanna |
 +^ Petitioner | CPIO Supreme Court |
 +^ Respondent | Subhash Chandra Agarwal |
 +^ RTI Act sections | §8(1)(j) |
 +^ Outcome | Partly allowed |
 +
 +===== Outcome =====
 +
 +Collegium resolutions announced are public; internal files protected under §8(1)(j) subject to public-interest balancing.
 +
 +===== Ratio decidendi =====
 +
 +As a limb of the 2019 Constitution-Bench ruling, the Court held that the collegium's final resolutions (recommendations, transfer orders) are disclosable. Internal files and the reasoning of individual judges remain personal information under §8(1)(j) subject to the public-interest test.
 +
 +===== Keywords =====
 +
 +collegium, judicial appointments, §8(1)(j), CJI office
 +
 +===== This case cites =====
 +
 +  * [[/important-decisions/court/cpio-supreme-court-v-subhash-agarwal|CPIO, Supreme Court of India v. Subhash Chandra Agarwal]] (SC 2019)
 +
 +===== 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/court/cpio-supreme-court-v-subhash-agarwal|CPIO, Supreme Court of India v. Subhash Chandra Agarwal]] (SC 2019)
 +  * [[/cases/secretary-general-supreme-court-v-subhash-chandra-agarwal-2009-del-hc|Secretary General, Supreme Court of India v. Subhash Chandra Agarwal]] (HC-DEL 2010)
 +  * [[/cases/khanapuram-gandaiah-2010-sc|Khanapuram Gandaiah v. Administrative Officer]] (SC 2010)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-medical-records-of-deceased-2018|Medical records of deceased relative — CIC]] (CIC 2018)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-rti-subordinate-court-judge-transfer-2018|Subordinate-court judge transfers — CIC]] (CIC 2018)
 +
 +===== Related =====
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 +<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-sc section-8 landmark}}