{"id":86590,"date":"2026-01-18T21:37:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T21:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/18\/cic-lawyers-cant-use-rti-for-cases-they-are-handling\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T21:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T21:37:25","slug":"cic-lawyers-cant-use-rti-for-cases-they-are-handling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/18\/cic-lawyers-cant-use-rti-for-cases-they-are-handling\/","title":{"rendered":"CIC: Lawyers can&#8217;t use RTI for cases they are handling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Information Commission (CIC) ruled that advocates cannot use the RTI Act to obtain case details for clients, citing a Madras High Court judgment. The CIC emphasized that such usage defeats the RTI Act&#8217;s core objectives and could be exploited to promote legal practice, not for genuine citizen information access.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Information Commission (CIC) ruled that advocates cannot use the RTI Act to obtain case details for clients, citing a Madras High Court judgment. The CIC emphasized that such usage defeats the RTI Act&#8217;s core objectives and could be exploited to promote legal practice, not for genuine citizen information access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":86591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}