{"id":1067,"date":"2021-07-12T11:40:47","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T06:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2021-07-12T11:40:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T06:10:47","slug":"rti-replies-not-very-reliable-do-not-cite-rti-documents-supreme-court-observes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/site\/rti-replies-not-very-reliable-do-not-cite-rti-documents-supreme-court-observes\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;RTI replies not very reliable, do not cite RTI documents:&#8221; Supreme Court observes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"text__StyledText-n3xoc4-0 gFmmLC\">\n<p>Information obtained through Right to Information Act (RTI Act) need not necessarily be reliable and lawyers should refrain from citing the same as authorities while arguing cases, the Supreme Court orally remarked on Friday (<em><strong>Ashish Kumar Saxena vs State of UP)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text__StyledText-n3xoc4-0 gFmmLC\">\n<p>The observation was made by a Bench of Justices\u00a0<strong>AM Khanwilkar\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Sanjiv Khanna<\/strong>\u00a0while hearing an appeal against an order of the Allahabad High Court.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;<strong>Do not cite a RTI reply. It is not very reliable as per our experience. If the letter ends with some other authority, the reply is something completely different<\/strong>,&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>said Justice AM Khanwilkar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barandbench.com\/amp\/story\/news\/litigation\/rti-replies-not-very-reliable-do-not-cite-rti-documents-supreme-court-observes?__twitter_impression=true\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>&gt;&gt;Read More<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information obtained through Right to Information Act (RTI Act) need not necessarily be reliable and lawyers should refrain from citing the same as authorities while arguing cases, the Supreme Court<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1070,"href":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions\/1070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indadfo.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}