Justice Subramonium Prasad ruled that CIC does not have the jurisdiction to direct furnishing of information provided for in Section 138 of the Income Tax Act.
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The Central Information Commission has directed the defence ministry to revisit its refusal to disclose records related to the Agnipath military recruitment scheme under the Right to Information Act. Activist Vihar Durve had filed an RTI application seeking records of deliberations on the Agnipath scheme. The defence ministry classified the files as "secret" and invoked Section 8(1)(a) of the RTI Act to deny the information.
After repeatedly being denied the issuance of a certified khata for the property purchased in 1995, Mohan Krishnamurthy filed an RTI for the khata but was denied at first appeal. At the second appeal, the Karnataka Information Commission slapped a fine on the Public Information Officer and Tahsildar, Arun Kumar Arolikar, under Section 20(1) of the RTI Act 2005.
The Right to Information (RTI) Act, implemented on 12 October 2005, did wonders in the initial years of its implementation not only by exposing scams and scandals, but also resulted in systematic reforms. However, RTI rules (and not the RTI Act) need important modifications mainly to prevent misuse of the Act and minimise the challenge to chief information commission (CIC) verdicts in courts.