Undermining the Right to Information: A Case Study in Sabotaging Transparency and Disobeying Supreme Court Mandates The Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005, stands as a cornerstone of Indian democracy, empowering citizens to seek accountability and transparency from public authorities. Yet, as a recent case before the Central Information Commission (CIC) reveals, the very mechanisms designed to ensure this transparency are, at times, systematically subverted, leading to a critical "loss to democracy." This particular case highlights how crucial information is allegedly hidden from an informed citizenry, and how even the custodians of the Act may contribute to this opacity. The Supreme Court's Crucial Stance: The Namit Sharma Judgment At the heart of this matter lies the Supreme Court's landmark judgment in Namit Sharma vs. Union of India (September 13, 2012) . This judgment, as the appellant in this case rightly pointed out, raised profound observations ...
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🧨 The RTI Assassination: How India’s Transparency Body Became Its Own Saboteur ✍️ By Rajnish Ratnakar Constitutional Activist | Founder, RTI & Public Grievance Warriors of India 📜 Seventy-five Years Later, the Citizen Still Begs for a Record India’s Right to Information Act was never meant to be a formality. It was a rebellion in legislative form—a citizen’s inheritance, not a government’s charity. And yet, in 2025, the apex transparency body—the Central Information Commission—has transformed into the very fortress of opacity it was built to dismantle....
The Judiciary's Silent Breach – A Call for Constitutional Accountability The bedrock of India's democracy rests upon the principle of justice, meticulously crafted and upheld by its judiciary. However, a concerning "doctrinal vacuum" has emerged, where the Supreme Court, despite pronouncing landmark rulings, lacks a clear internal oversight policy to ensure the implementation of its own judgments. This critical oversight is not merely a procedu...
Unmasking the Cobra: A Call to Reclaim India's Constitutional Promise India, the world's largest democracy, stands at a critical juncture. The narrative of its democratic struggles is often simplified, but the truth, as unearthed by deep legal and administrative scrutiny, is far more alarming: India’s democracy is not failing—it is being systematically sabotaged. This is the urgent, unvarnished truth unveiled by constitutional activist Rajnish Ratnakar in his groundbreaking manifesto, "The Cobra Codex: Eleven Theories of Constitutional Betrayal and Democratic Resurrection." Ratnakar, the visionary Founder of RTI & Public Grievance Warriors of India, argues that through meticulous RTI activism, legal audits, and doctrinal analysis, he has uncovered not just loopholes, but deliberate designs to bury citizen power. This is more than inefficiency; it is a calculated erosion of accountability, allowing impunity to flourish. His manifesto presents eleven pier...
📘 Title: The Cobra Codex Eleven Theories of Constitutional Betrayal and Democratic Resurrection By Rajnish Ratnakar , Founder – RTI & Public Grievance Warriors of India 🔹 Introduction India’s democracy is not failing—it is being systematically sabotaged . Through RTI activism, legal audits, and doctrinal analysis, I have uncovered not just loopholes, but deliberate designs to bury citizen power . This manifesto presents Eleven Theories that reveal how colonial laws, inherited hierarchies, and bureaucratic opacity have weakened accountability and allowed impunity to flour...