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Validity of State RTI Rules — various HCs

State RTI Rules that impose excessive fees or form restrictions are ultra vires the Act. State RTI rules imposing excessive fees, word limits, or form restrictions.

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 +{{htmlmetatags>metatag-keywords=(Validity of State RTI Rules — various HCs,Various High Courts RTI,RTI §28,RTI §6,RTI §7,State Rules,§28,ultra vires,fees,word limit)&metatag-description=(State RTI Rules that impose excessive fees or form restrictions are ultra vires the Act. State RTI rules imposing excessive fees, word limits, or form restrictions.)}}
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 +====== Validity of State RTI Rules — various HCs ======
 +
 +<WRAP center round info 95%>
 +**Various High Courts** · 2016-01-01 · Citation awaited
 +</WRAP>
 +
 +//State RTI rules imposing excessive fees, word limits, or form restrictions beyond the Act are ultra vires.//
 +
 +===== Case details =====
 +
 +^ Court | Various High Courts |
 +^ Decided | 2016-01-01 |
 +^ Citation | Citation awaited |
 +^ Petitioner | various RTI activists |
 +^ Respondent | State Governments |
 +^ RTI Act sections | §28, §6, §7 |
 +^ Outcome | Partly allowed |
 +
 +===== Outcome =====
 +
 +State RTI Rules that impose excessive fees or form restrictions are ultra vires the Act.
 +
 +===== Ratio decidendi =====
 +
 +While States are empowered under §28 to make Rules, these cannot impose restrictions inconsistent with the Act — e.g., word limits on applications, excessive fees, or mandatory forms that deter genuine applicants.
 +
 +===== Keywords =====
 +
 +State Rules, §28, ultra vires, fees, word limit
 +
 +===== 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-procedural-fee-calculation-2019|Excessive fee calculation — §7(3) — CIC]] (CIC 2019)
 +  * [[/cases/delhi-hc-rti-inspection-charge-2014|Inspection charges — Delhi HC]] (HC-DEL 2014)
 +  * [[/cases/sc-rti-limitation-whole-india-2019|RTI Act 2019 Amendment — Commissioner terms]] (SC 2019)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-rti-state-cabinet-2020|State-cabinet records — §8(1)(i) applicability]] (CIC 2020)
 +  * [[/cases/sc-rti-overriding-official-secrets-2016|§22 vs. Official Secrets Act]] (SC 2016)
 +
 +===== Related =====
 +
 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?court=HC-DEL|All Various High Courts rulings in the corpus]]
 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?section=28|All RTI cases turning on §28]]
 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?section=6|All RTI cases turning on §6]]
 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?section=7|All RTI cases turning on §7]]
 +  * [[: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-hc-del section-28 section-6 section-7}}