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| + | ====== Validity of State RTI Rules — various HCs ====== | ||
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| + | **Various High Courts** · 2016-01-01 · Citation awaited | ||
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| + | //State RTI rules imposing excessive fees, word limits, or form restrictions beyond the Act are ultra vires.// | ||
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| + | ===== Case details ===== | ||
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| + | ^ 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 | | ||
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| + | ===== Outcome ===== | ||
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| + | State RTI Rules that impose excessive fees or form restrictions are ultra vires the Act. | ||
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| + | ===== Ratio decidendi ===== | ||
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| + | While States are empowered under §28 to make Rules, these cannot impose restrictions inconsistent with the Act — e.g., word limits on applications, | ||
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| + | ===== Keywords ===== | ||
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| + | State Rules, §28, ultra vires, fees, word limit | ||
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| + | ===== Similar cases in the corpus ===== | ||
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| + | //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.// | ||
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| + | ===== Related ===== | ||
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| + | * [[:act|The RTI Act, 2005 — annotated]] | ||
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| + | **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. | ||
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| + | //Editorial summary · last reviewed 21 April 2026.// | ||
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