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July 2011

PART B:

By Narayan Varma | Chartered Accountant
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  •    RTI
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The Central Government has designed RTI Logo and has released it on DoPT web and other sites.

  •  CBI is exempted from RTI

An unfortunate news came in the second week of June that the Central Government has notified u/s.24 read with the Second Schedule that the RTI Act shall not apply to Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). S/s. (2) of section 24 permits the Central Government to amend the Second Schedule and it is now amended to include CBI. The Notification is reproduced hereunder:

It is learnt that the Madras High Court has issued notice to the Government of India on exempting CBI. Many in the country are of the opinion that CBI cannot be classified as it does not deal either with ‘intelligence’ or ‘security’ issues, the only two conditions that can make a government department exempt under RTI.
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