The Right To Information (RTI) Act recognizes the citizen as the ruler of the Nation and hence makes giving information as the default mode and limits the denial of information in Section 8 (1).

It empowered citizens to expose corruption and was slowly converting our democracy into a participatory democracy, -the Swaraj which we deserve.

The law however, has the safeguard to deny certain information limited to ten exemptions in Section 8 (1). It safeguards privacy by restricting denial in Section 8 (1)(j) thus:

“information which relates to personal information the disclosure of which has no relationship to any public activity or interest, or which........

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