https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=213856 Information already made accessible through the special inspection and certified-copy mechanism under Section 610 of the Companies Act, 1956 was treated as being in the statutory public domain and not as information separately required to be furnished under the Right to Information Act, 2005; the petitioners' position was upheld. Penalty proceedings under Section 20(1) of the RTI Act were also found unwarranted because the denial rested on an arguable legal basis supported by an administrative circular and prior CIC views, so it could not be characterised as mala fide or without reasonable cause. The impugned CIC orders were quashed. en-us Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:41:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=213856 Information already made accessible through the special inspection and certified-copy mechanism under Section 610 of the Companies Act, 1956 was treated as being in the statutory public domain and not as information separately required to be furnished under the Right to Information Act, 2005; the petitioners' position was upheld. Penalty proceedings under Section 20(1) of the RTI Act were also found unwarranted because the denial rested on an arguable legal basis supported by an administrative circular and prior CIC views, so it could not be characterised as mala fide or without reasonable cause. The impugned CIC orders were quashed. Case-Laws Companies Law Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=213856