Records of pending SC cases — not disclosable via RTI

Internal files of pending SC/HC cases protected; parties must use certified copies under CPC/SC rules, not RTI. Pending case records: use certified-copies. Pending case records: use certified-copies procedure (CPC/SC Rules), not RTI. §8(1)(b) applies. ===== Case details ===== ^ Court | Supreme Court of India | ^ Decided | 2022-01-01 | ^ Citation | Citation awaited | ^ Petitioner | Supreme Court Registry | ^ Respondent | RTI applicant | ^ RTI Act sections | §8(1)(b), §8(1)(e) | ^ Outcome | Applicant allowed | ===== Outcome ===== Internal files of pending SC/HC cases protected; parties must use certified copies under CPC/SC rules, not RTI. ===== Ratio decidendi ===== Records of pending cases before the Supreme Court and High Courts — notes, drafts, internal correspondence — are protected under §8(1)(b) (court-forbidden disclosure) and §8(1)(e). Parties must use the certified-copies procedure under the Supreme Court Rules / CPC, not RTI, for access. ===== Keywords ===== pending cases, Supreme Court, §8(1)(b), certified copies ===== 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. * High Court Registry records — CIC (CIC 2022) * Appellate Tribunal records — SC (SC 2022) * Court-directed non-disclosure — §8(1)(b) — CIC (CIC 2018) * Gujarat HC pleadings — third-party RTI not maintainable (HC-GUJ 2019) * Judicial-delay records — SC (SC 2023) ===== Related ===== * All Supreme Court of India rulings in the corpus * All RTI cases turning on §8 * Full case-law search * Case-Law Database — overview * PIO RTI Reply Guide * The RTI Act, 2005 — annotated