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§25 annual report — disclosure obligation

§25 annual reports by CIC/SIC must be published timely and laid before Parliament/State legislature. §25 annual reports must be timely published and laid before.

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 +====== §25 annual report — disclosure obligation ======
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 +<WRAP center round info 95%>
 +**Supreme Court of India** · 2019-01-01 · Citation awaited
 +</WRAP>
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 +//§25 annual reports must be timely published and laid before the legislature; stale reports actionable.//
 +
 +===== Case details =====
 +
 +^ Court | Supreme Court of India |
 +^ Decided | 2019-01-01 |
 +^ Citation | Citation awaited |
 +^ Petitioner | Transparency advocates |
 +^ Respondent | CIC / SIC |
 +^ RTI Act sections | §25 |
 +^ Outcome | Applicant allowed |
 +
 +===== Outcome =====
 +
 +§25 annual reports by CIC/SIC must be published timely and laid before Parliament/State legislature.
 +
 +===== Ratio decidendi =====
 +
 +§25 of the RTI Act requires every Information Commission to prepare an annual report on the implementation of the Act. The report must be timely (by end of the next financial year) and laid before Parliament / State legislature. Stale or non-existent reports are actionable.
 +
 +===== Keywords =====
 +
 +§25, annual report, Information Commission
 +
 +===== 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/anjali-bhardwaj-vs-union-of-india|Anjali Bhardwaj v. Union of India]] (SC 2019)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-rti-cag-reports-2021|CAG audit reports — CIC]] (CIC 2021)
 +  * [[/cases/sc-natural-justice-rti-commission-hearing-2020|Natural justice in Information Commission hearings]] (SC 2020)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-rti-bharat-petroleum-2020|PSU company board records — CIC]] (CIC 2020)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-rti-parliament-secretariat-2019|Parliament Secretariat RTI scope — CIC]] (CIC 2019)
 +
 +===== Related =====
 +
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 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?section=25|All RTI cases turning on §25]]
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 +  * [[:cases|Case-Law Database — overview]]
 +  * [[:pio-rti-reply-guide|PIO RTI Reply Guide]]
 +  * [[:act|The RTI Act, 2005 — annotated]]
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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.//
 +
 +{{tag>case-law court-sc section-25}}