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IB is §24 exempt; personnel matters [pension, service records] of IB officers partly accessible to the officer themselves.

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 +====== IB and §24 scope — SC — RTI Wiki Citizen Guide 2026 ======
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 +**Supreme Court of India** · 2018-01-01 · Citation awaited
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 +**IB is §24 exempt; personnel matters [pension, service records] of IB officers partly accessible to the officer themselves.**
 +
 +//IB §24 exemption is organisational; an IB officer's own personnel record remains accessible to him.//
 +
 +===== Case details =====
 +
 +^ Court | Supreme Court of India |
 +^ Decided | 2018-01-01 |
 +^ Citation | Citation awaited |
 +^ Petitioner | RTI applicant |
 +^ Respondent | Intelligence Bureau |
 +^ RTI Act sections | §24 |
 +^ Outcome | Partly allowed |
 +
 +===== Outcome =====
 +
 +IB is §24 exempt; personnel matters (pension, service records) of IB officers partly accessible to the officer themselves.
 +
 +===== Ratio decidendi =====
 +
 +§24 exempts the Intelligence Bureau as an organisation from RTI. However, the exemption applies to operational/intelligence records, not to an IB officer's own personnel records (pension, service book, postings). The data-subject rule (§8(1)(j) not against the self) operates within the §24 framework.
 +
 +===== Keywords =====
 +
 +IB, §24, own records, personnel
 +
 +===== 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-rti-defence-pensions-ceremonial-2020|Defence pension sanction records — CIC]] (CIC 2020)
 +  * [[/cases/sc-rti-service-appraisal-own-access-2022|Own APAR and service-book access]] (SC 2022)
 +  * [[/cases/delhi-hc-rti-armed-forces-2017|Armed-forces service records — Delhi HC]] (HC-DEL 2017)
 +  * [[/cases/sc-rti-personal-service-record-own-2015|Public servant's own service record — SC]] (SC 2015)
 +  * [[/cases/kerala-hc-rti-pension-records-2018|Pension records — Kerala HC]] (HC-KER 2018)
 +
 +===== Related =====
 +
 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?court=SC|All Supreme Court of India rulings in the corpus]]
 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?section=24|All RTI cases turning on §24]]
 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?section=8|All RTI cases turning on §8]]
 +  * [[: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-sc section-24 section-8}}