STUDENTS CAN FILE RTI TO GET COPIES OF THEIR ANSWER SHEETS: A GUIDELINE FOR STUDENTS ON HOW TO FILE RTI
In Kumar Shanu and Anr. Vs. YSK Seshu Kumar, Chairman, CBSE, Contempt Petition (Civil) No. 9837/2016 in Civil Appeal No. 6454/2011 , the Supreme Court held - "Answer-Sheet is an Information and therefore, examinees shall have the right to inspect their Answer-Sheets under RTI Act, 2005 and its Rules made thereunder which prescribes Rs 10/- as application fee for getting the information and Rs. 2 per page for the copies of such information." In CBSE & Anr. Vs. Aditya Bandopadhyay & Ors. –Civil Appeal No. 6454/2011 , the Supreme Court held - i) “The examining bodies (Universities, Examination Boards, CBSC etc.) are neither security nor intelligence organisations and therefore the exemption under section 24 will not apply to them. The disclosure of information with reference to answer-books does not also involve infringement of any copyright and therefore section 9 will not apply. Resultantly, unless the examining bodies are able to demonst...