Legal Articles Rafale: Official Secret Act Vs Right To Information. March 18, 2019 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The government is focusing on whether or not documents released in the media are ‘secret’, without going into their veracity. For discovering an incriminating document from the defence department, a journalist is threatened. For attaching those documents to public interest litigation, a lawyer is threatened with prosecution under the Official Secrets Act. The battle is […] Read more » Arun Shourie FIR against Prime Minister Narendra Modi Official Secret Act Prashant Bhushan Rafale RIGHT TO INFORMATION Yashwant Sinha
Legal Articles Right to Information Act 2005 November 30, 2012 / November 30, 2012 by Dr Shailesh N Hadli | 1 Comment on Right to Information Act 2005 An Act to provide for setting out the practical regime of right to information for citizens to secure access to information under the control of public authorities, in order to promote transparency and accountability in the working of every public authority, the constitution of a Central Information Commission and State Information Commissions and for matters […] Read more » Citizen right in RTI main objectives of the RTI RIGHT TO INFORMATION Right to Information Act Right to Information Act 2005 Role of the government in RTI
Legal Articles NOTE ON RIGHT TO INFORMATION August 26, 2012 by Dhawesh Pahuja | 2 Comments on NOTE ON RIGHT TO INFORMATION Dhawesh Pahuja In modern India where politics plays a vital role, Corruption among the Public Officials is growing with a high speed day by day. To bring transparency and openness for the citizens to know about their Governmentary System and its administrative functions, the Government of India repealed ‘Freedom of Information Act, 2002’ and passed […] Read more » RIGHT TO INFORMATION
Legal Articles Domestic Implementation of Human Rights February 28, 2012 / March 17, 2016 by Kaushik Dhar | Leave a Comment KAUSHIK DHAR 1. UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND INDIAN CONSTITUTION India was a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Indian constitution was adopted by the constituent Assembly on Dec 26, 1949, which came into force from Jan 26, 1950. Our Indian constitution was greatly influenced by the Universal Declaration of Human […] Read more » COVENANT ON CIVIL & POLITICAL RIGHTS DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS Declaration of Indian Constitution Domestic Implementation of Human Rights Equal pay for equal work Right of prisoners to be treated with humanity Right of workmen to medical benefits Right to compensation RIGHT TO INFORMATION Right to livelihood Right to privacy Right to provide legal assistant Right to shelter Right to speedy trial Right to travel abroad The Indian Constitution
Legal Articles HOW TO EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO INFORMATION June 2, 2010 by Amitra Sudan Chakrabortty | 9 Comments on HOW TO EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO INFORMATION ORIGIN and Meaning of RIGHT TO INFORMATION Our country is a democratic country and the persons who runs our Democratic Government are elected by the people of India . People of India elect them by exercising their voting rights in General election. So the persons running our DEMOCRATIC Government actually derive their powers to run the […] Read more » RIGHT TO INFORMATION