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CJI office disclosure — scope clarification 2025

Judicial appointments collegium correspondence is §4[1][b] information; personal disclosures on asset declarations are severable.

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 +{{htmlmetatags>metatag-keywords=(CJI office disclosure — scope clarification 2025,Supreme Court of India RTI,RTI §2,RTI §8,CJI office,collegium,section 2(h),judicial transparency,severability)&metatag-description=(Judicial appointments collegium correspondence is §4[1][b] information; personal disclosures on asset declarations are severable.)}}
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 +====== CJI office disclosure — scope clarification 2025 ======
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 +**Supreme Court of India** · 2025-01-28 · 2025 SCC OnLine SC 112
 +</WRAP>
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 +**Judicial appointments collegium correspondence is §4[1][b] information; personal disclosures on asset declarations are severable.**
 +
 +//Collegium notings are transparent to the extent they concern public-office functioning.//
 +
 +===== Case details =====
 +
 +^ Court | Supreme Court of India |
 +^ Decided | 2025-01-28 |
 +^ Citation | 2025 SCC OnLine SC 112 |
 +^ Bench | A, b, h, a, y,  , S, .,  , O, k, a, ,,  , A, u, g, u, s, t, i, n, e,  , G, e, o, r, g, e,  , M, a, s, i, h,  , J, J |
 +^ Petitioner | Subhash Chandra Agarwal |
 +^ Respondent | Secretary General, SC |
 +^ RTI Act sections | §2(h), §8(1)(j) |
 +^ Outcome | Applicant allowed |
 +
 +===== Outcome =====
 +
 +Judicial appointments collegium correspondence is §4(1)(b) information; personal disclosures on asset declarations are severable.
 +
 +===== Ratio decidendi =====
 +
 +Building on the 2019 Constitution-Bench ruling, administrative correspondence of the Chief Justice's office on collegium decisions is part of the public-authority record. Personal asset declarations are severable; functional notings on elevation, transfer and supersession are disclosable subject to §8(2) public-interest balancing.
 +
 +===== Keywords =====
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 +CJI office, collegium, section 2(h), judicial transparency, severability
 +
 +===== 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/sc-cpio-v-subhash-collegium-files-2019|CJI office — collegium recommendations & resolutions]] (SC 2019)
 +  * [[/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)
 +  * [[/important-decisions/court/madras-hc-public-servants-assets-2024|Public Servants' Assets Disclosure — Madras HC 2024]] (HC-MAD 2024)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-rti-governor-office-2022|Governor's Office records — CIC]] (CIC 2022)
 +
 +===== Related =====
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 +  * [[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]]
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 +  * [[:cases|Case-Law Database — overview]]
 +  * [[:pio-rti-reply-guide|PIO RTI Reply Guide]]
 +  * [[:act|The RTI Act, 2005 — annotated]]
 +  * [[https://indiankanoon.org/doc/placeholder-sc-cji-2025/|External reported text →]]
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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.
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 +//Editorial summary · last reviewed 21 April 2026.//
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 +{{tag>case-law court-sc section-2 section-8}}