Machine-readable electoral rolls — SC

Quick Reply: Electoral rolls disclosable in book form; machine-readable format denied on privacy-scale grounds. Electoral rolls: book/PDF disclosure OK; machine-readable bulk. </WRAP>

Electoral rolls: book/PDF disclosure OK; machine-readable bulk format restricted due to aggregation risk. ===== Case details ===== ^ Court | Supreme Court of India | ^ Decided | 2023-01-01 | ^ Citation | Citation awaited | ^ Petitioner | RTI applicant / civic-tech organisation | ^ Respondent | Election Commission | ^ RTI Act sections | §4(1)(b) | ^ Outcome | Partly allowed | ===== Outcome ===== Electoral rolls disclosable in book form; machine-readable format denied on privacy-scale grounds. ===== Ratio decidendi ===== Electoral rolls are public records and disclosable in the polling-booth-wise book form / PDF. Bulk machine-readable formats (CSV / database dumps) are restricted due to the aggregation/profiling risks — a proportionality concern rooted in Puttaswamy. ===== Keywords ===== electoral rolls, machine readable, privacy, aggregation ===== 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. * Electoral roll copies — CIC (CIC 2016) * ADR v. Union of India (Electoral Bonds) (SC 2024) * Post-ADR Electoral Bonds — RTI sequel (CIC 2024) * MGNREGS beneficiary lists — Kerala HC (HC-KER 2020) * K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India (SC 2017) ===== Related ===== * All Supreme Court of India rulings in the corpus * All RTI cases turning on §4 * All RTI cases turning on §8 * Full case-law search * Case-Law Database — overview * PIO RTI Reply Guide * The RTI Act, 2005 — annotated

Editorial summary · last reviewed 21 April 2026.