Keeping Pace with Legal Change
Severe admonition by high courts against judicial officers This is not the first time that the Supreme Court of India…
India’s Right to Information Act, 2005, makes citizens capable of accessing information possessed by public authorities, enhancing transparency. The revelation of examiners’ names under this Act is still controversial. The Supreme Court, in a 2016 judgment, held that the disclosure of examiners’ names would put their lives at risk and distort the system of examination, invoking a relationship of fiduciary between examiners and bodies such as the Public Service Commission. Section 8(1)(g) of the RTI Act also shields such information when disclosure risks life or safety. Therefore, the identities of examiners are normally exempted, weighing transparency against security interests.
