Official Secrets Act 1923 and RTI
- Supreme Court has quashed government’s attempt to hide behind Official Secrets Act (OSA) from disclosing information regarding Rafale Jet’s pricing under Right to Information.
OSA and RTI
- SC in its observation remarked that the RTI act has revolutionised governance and overpowered colonial notions of secrecy like OSA.
- The Section 22 of the RTI Act, which declared the RTI to have an “overriding effect” over OSA.
- Then Section 24 mandates even security and intelligence organisations to disclose information on corruption and human rights violations.
- Section 8(2) compels the government to disclose information “if public interest in disclosure outweighs the harm to protected interests.
Already a Member? Login here Do You Want to Read More?
Subscribe Now
To get access to detailed content
Take Annual Subscription and get the following Advantage
The annual members of the Civil Services Chronicle can read the monthly content of the magazine as well as the Chronicle magazine archives.
Readers can study all the material since 2018 of the Civil Services Chronicle monthly issue in the form of Chronicle magazine archives.
Indian Polity And Governance
- 1 Principle of Natural Justice
- 2 Appointment & Transfer of Judges
- 3 Doctrine of Eminent Domain: State Property, Common Property & Community Property
- 4 Distribution of Legislative Power: What Centre & States can & cannot do?
- 5 Powers of Central Investigation Agencies
- 6 Election Commission: Power, Limitations & Conflicts
- 7 Recusal of Judges
- 8 Speaker vs. Governor: Separation of Powers
- 9 Lokpal & Lokayukta: Powers, Functions & Limitations
- 10 Creation of New States in India
