Supreme Court of India
Central Board of Secondary Education & Anr. v. Aditya Bandopadhyay & Ors.
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What the Court ordered
In view of the foregoing, the order of the High Court directing the examining bodies to permit examinees to have inspection of their answer books is affirmed, subject to the clarifications regarding the scope of the RTI Act and the safeguards and conditions subject to which 'information' should be furnished.
Judgment, page 66
From the headnote
Right to Information Act, 2005: ss. 8 (1)(e), 2 (f), 2(i), 2(j), 3, 24 and 9 - Public examination - Examinee's right to inspect his evaluated answer books in a public examination or taking certified copies - Scope of - Held: Every examinee has the right to access his evaluated answer-books, by either inspecting them or take certified copies thereof, . unless the evaluated answer books are found to be exempted u/s. 8(1)(e) - Answer-book is a document or record in terms of s. 2(i) and as such the evaluated answer-book is also an 'information' under the Act - Under s. 3, the citizens have the
Authorities it was built on
- 1975 State of U.P. v. Raj Narain & Ors.
- 2004 Pramod Kumar Srivastava v. Chairman, Bihar Public Service Commission, Patna and Ors.
- 2004 Pepole's Union for Civil Liberties and Anr. v. Union of India and Ors.
- 1997 Shri Dinesh Trivedi, M.P. and Ors. v. Union of India and Ors.
- 2007 The Secretary, West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education v. Ayan Das and Ors.
Where later benches applied it
- 2019 Central Public Information Officer, v. Subhash Chandra Agarwal
- 2018 Union Public Service Commission Etc. v. Angesh Kumar & Ors. Etc.
- 2015 Reserve Bank of India v. Jayantilal N. Mistry
- 2023 Kishan Chand Jain v. Union of India & Ors.
- 2023 Sabir Ali Khan v. Syed Mohd. Ahmad Ali Khan and Others
- 2012 Girish Ramchandra Deshpande v. Cen. Information Commr. & Ors.
- 2012 Sri Marcel Martins v. M. Printer & Ors.
- 2021 Rajeev Suri v. Delhi Development Authority & Ors
- 2019 Pawan Kumar v. Babulal Since Deceased through Lrs. and Ors.
- 2011 The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India v. Shaunak H.satya & Ors.
Of those, 3 relied on · 4 referred to · 3 mentioned
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