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+{{htmlmetatags>metatag-keywords=(historical cic orders,cic archive india,cic decisions 2017,cic decisions 2018,central information commission orders,cic order history,rti case timeline india,cic orders chronology)&metatag-description=(Chronological archive of significant Central Information Commission orders and news — landmark rulings, policy decisions, and orders that shaped the RTI Act from 2005 to 2026.)}}
+====== Historical CIC Orders — A Chronological Archive ======
+{{ :social:auto:historical-cic-orders.png?direct&1200 |Historical CIC Orders — RTI Wiki }}
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+**In one line.** The Central Information Commission (CIC) has decided over **three lakh** second appeals and complaints since its establishment on **12 October 2005**. This page is a curated, chronological archive of the orders, news items, and decisions that most shaped the Act — filtered from the full corpus so you can trace the arc without reading every order.
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+===== How this archive is organised =====
+  * **Landmark-tier orders** get a dedicated page with case analysis — linked here and cross-referenced from the relevant §8 articles.
+  * **Significant orders** get a one-line entry with the year, outcome, and a link to the primary source where available.
+  * **News items** (commissioner appointments, structural changes) are grouped by year.
+For the curated top-ten analysis, see **[[:landmark-cic-decisions|10 Landmark CIC Decisions That Transformed RTI]]**. For recent rulings (2021–2026), see **[[:landmark-rulings-2021-2026|Landmark Rulings 2021–2026]]**.
+===== 2005–2010 — Foundation years =====
+  * **2005-10-12** — CIC constituted under Section 12 of the RTI Act, 2005. First Chief IC: Wajahat Habibullah.
+  * **2006** — First full year of operation. Annual report notes ~10,000 registrations; most concerned pension, employment, and public-expenditure queries.
+  * **2007** — //Hari Devi v. Municipal Corporation of Delhi//, the CIC held that property-tax files are public-authority records.
+  * **2008** — //CBSE v. Aditya Bandopadhyay// (pre-Supreme Court journey) — CIC directed disclosure of evaluated answer scripts; later affirmed by SC (2011) 8 SCC 497.
+  * **2009** — Full Bench rulings on file notings begin the doctrine that was later sealed by //R.K. Jain// (2013).
+===== 2011–2015 — The interpretive decade =====
+  * **2011** — //CBSE v. Aditya Bandopadhyay//, (2011) 8 SCC 497. Evaluated answer scripts are information; PIOs cannot refuse on fiduciary grounds. See deep dive at **[[:rti-for-answer-sheet-inspection|RTI for answer-sheet inspection]]**.
+  * **2013-06-03** — CIC Full Bench (//Subhash Chandra Agrawal//) held that **six national political parties** are public authorities under §2(h). Orders to disclose donor lists. Resistance ongoing — see //Association for Democratic Reforms// cases at SC.
+  * **2013** — //R.K. Jain v. UoI//, (2013) 14 SCC 794. Post-decisional file-notings disclosable; subjective ACRs narrowly exempt.
+  * **2013** — //Thalappalam Service Cooperative Bank// at Kerala HC (later SC 2013); CIC subsequent orders apply the substantial-financing test.
+  * **2014** — //Girish Ramchandra Deshpande// refined — individual service-record items (pay, disciplinary, transfer) become §8(1)(j) presumptive. Integrity certificates treated similarly.
+===== 2016–2020 — Privacy and reform =====
+  * **2016** — //RBI v. Jayantilal Mistry//, (2016) 5 SCC 136. CIC's earlier line on regulator-disclosure upheld — banks cannot shield audit reports under §8(1)(d) or §8(1)(e).
+  * **2017** — //Justice K.S. Puttaswamy (Retd.) v. UoI//, (2017) 10 SCC 1. Privacy as fundamental right. CIC subsequently re-calibrates §8(1)(j) orders to apply proportionality.
+  * **2018** — Major CIC rulings on departmental inquiry files, applying //Girish Deshpande// and //R.K. Jain// jointly. Service records become the most common §8(1)(j) battleground.
+  * **2019-05** — **[[:blog:cic-does-not-allow-dissent-note-of-ashok-lavasa-over-complaint-received-against-prime-minister-during-lok-sabha-elections|CIC does not allow dissent note of Ashok Lavasa]]** — significant order on Election Commission dissenting notes. See our analysis.
+  * **2019-08** — RTI (Amendment) Act, 2019. Reduces tenure of CIC / SIC from 5 years to "as prescribed", changes salary-equivalence. Controversial; contested in writs.
+  * **2020-09** — CIC //CJI Office// matter (//Subhash Chandra Agrawal//) reaches SC — Supreme Court is held to be a "public authority" under RTI; CIC jurisdiction affirmed indirectly.
+===== 2021–2026 — The DPDP era =====
+  * **2021** — CIC Annual Report documents ~6 lakh pending second appeals; structural capacity concerns flagged.
+  * **2022** — //Thoufeek Ahmed v. State of Kerala// (Kerala HC) — CIC / SIC orders must be reasoned; procedural compliance (hearing PIO and applicant) is reviewable.
+  * **2023** — Digital Personal Data Protection Act enacted. §44(3) amends RTI §8(1)(j); public-interest override moves from within clause (j) to §8(2). See **[[:blog:dpdp-rules-2025-amendment-to-rti-act|DPDP Rules 2025 amendment]]**.
+  * **2024** — //Electoral Bonds// judgment (SC, 2024) — the ADR challenge is upheld. Impacts political-finance transparency; CIC's earlier ADR orders gain force. See [[:important-decisions:electoral-bonds-adr-2024|Electoral Bonds SC 2024]].
+  * **2024-07** — Delhi HC // Abhishek Shukla v. DU// on PhD theses disclosability. CIC line on university records reinforced. See **[[:blog:delhi-hc-phd-theses-rti-ruling-2024|Delhi HC PhD theses ruling]]**.
+  * **2025-11-14** — DPDP Rules, 2025 notified. §8(1)(j) amendment takes effect. CIC and SICs begin applying the new §8(2)-only framework. See our **[[:pio-section-8-1-j-framework|PIO Framework — §8(1)(j) after DPDP]]**.
+  * **2026-04** — Landmark rulings page last updated; see **[[:landmark-rulings-2021-2026|Landmark rulings 2021–2026]]**.
+===== Thematic clusters =====
+==== Political parties under RTI ====
+Full Bench, CIC (2013) held national parties to be public authorities — enforcement remains contested. See also [[:landmark-cic-decisions|landmark CIC decisions]].
+==== Judges' asset disclosures ====
+//Subhash Chandra Agrawal v. CPIO, Supreme Court// — SC holds that asset declarations by judges are in principle disclosable; PIO must apply §8(1)(j) balance.
+==== Election Commission records ====
+Ashok Lavasa dissent-note order (2019) — CIC ruled that the dissent note on a Model Code complaint during Lok Sabha elections does not have to be disclosed under RTI. The case drew commentary on the limits of CIC jurisdiction over ECI records.
+==== Service records of public servants ====
+//Girish Ramchandra Deshpande// (2013) SC + subsequent CIC orders. Aggregate attendance, posting, and rank-data — disclosable. ACR / APAR / integrity certificate — §8(1)(j) presumptive, subject to §8(2) override.
+==== Cabinet and policy files ====
+//R.K. Jain// (2013) SC + //Treesa Irish// (Kerala HC 2010) — post-decisional file-notings part of §2(i) record. Cabinet deliberations time-bounded under §8(1)(i).
+==== Regulator records — banking, securities, insurance ====
+//RBI v. Jayantilal Mistry// (2016) SC — audit, inspection, disciplinary records of regulated entities held by regulators are disclosable. Applies to RBI, SEBI, IRDAI, PFRDA.
+===== Significant CIC personnel changes =====
+  * **2005** — Wajahat Habibullah, first CIC.
+  * **2010** — A.N. Tiwari, second CIC.
+  * **2013** — Deepak Sandhu, third CIC (first woman CIC).
+  * **2014** — Rajiv Mathur, fourth CIC.
+  * **2014** — //Hiatus under NDA-I//: prolonged vacancy period drew judicial attention.
+  * **2015** — R.K. Mathur appointed; subsequent CICs in the 2016-2020 window.
+  * **2019 onwards** — post-amendment tenure regime; several orders on short-notice tenure decisions.
+===== How to find a specific order =====
+The CIC's own portal at **[[https://cic.gov.in|cic.gov.in]]** has a case-number searcher. For RTI Wiki's curated entries:
+  * **Top-ten landmark** → [[:landmark-cic-decisions|10 Landmark CIC Decisions]]
+  * **Recent (2021–2026)** → [[:landmark-rulings-2021-2026|Landmark rulings]]
+  * **Specific §8 clause** → see [[:explanations:grounds-for-rejection|Grounds for RTI rejection]] and the PIO framework pages
+  * **Full blog coverage** → [[:blog:start|Blog]] (year-by-year archive)
+===== Related reading =====
+  * [[:landmark-cic-decisions|10 Landmark CIC Decisions That Transformed RTI]]
+  * [[:landmark-rulings-2021-2026|Landmark rulings 2021–2026]]
+  * [[:bombay-hc-rti-rulings|Bombay HC RTI rulings]]
+  * [[:madras-hc-rti-rulings|Madras HC RTI rulings]]
+  * [[:kerala-hc-rti-rulings|Kerala HC RTI rulings]]
+  * [[:karnataka-hc-rti-rulings|Karnataka HC RTI rulings]]
+  * [[:calcutta-hc-rti-rulings|Calcutta HC RTI rulings]]
+  * [[:explanations:grounds-for-rejection|Grounds for RTI rejection]]
+  * [[:blog:dpdp-rules-2025-amendment-to-rti-act|DPDP Rules 2025 amendment]]
+  * [[:blog:rti-act-decade-of-change-2015-2025|RTI: a decade of change]]
+  * [[:blog:start|Blog — all posts]]
+  * [[:important-decisions:start|Important decisions index]]
+===== Sources =====
+  * Central Information Commission — Annual Reports 2005-2024 (''cic.gov.in'').
+  * Right to Information Act, 2005 (as amended 2019, 2023).
+  * Supreme Court and High Court judgements as cited above.
+----
+//Last reviewed: 21 April 2026.//
+{{tag>cic archive historical-orders rti-history timeline pillar-5}}

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