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Several information commissioners point out how the new data law will institutionalise denial of information using the “personal information” provision, and widen the scope of ‘person’ to cover even corporations, firms or states.
The Court discussed a judgment of the Supreme Court and found that the question was whether BIAL was a body owned, controlled or substantially financed by funds provided by the appropriate government.
RTI activist Anjali Bharadwaj had cited an interview of retired SC judge and Collegium member, Justice Madan B. Lokur, in which he said that the decision to elevate two HC chief justices, taken during a meeting on December 12, 2018, was 'changed' after he had retired.
A planned amendment says that all information that can be related to a person may be denied.
While the present matter relates to the prime minister's delegation of powers of appointment to his MoS (PMO), the CIC, in the past, had pulled up the PMO for not providing information requested through RTI applications.