As cases of denial of information under the Right to Information Act pile up, the Reserve Bank of India approached various courts as many as nine times against the Central Information Commission’s (CIC) orders directing it to provide information. Seven of these cases are now pending in the Delhi High Court while two are in the Bombay High Court. Not only has the RBI preferred litigation against providing information, the central bank earlier this year also refused to give information on expenses it has incurred on such litigation against CIC orders. Besides these nine cases, there are three others cases in which the RBI sought to become a petitioner to block information against the CIC’s decisions. In these cases, National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) and ICICI Bank are currently petitioners. The RBI wants to defend them by becoming a petitioner too...........
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