State Bank of India (SBI) has once again refused to divulge details, sought under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005, of the Electoral Bond (EB) sale data of donors and recipient political parties, even though admitting that whatever little information it had was “goofed up” while handing it over to senior RTI activist, Venkatesh […]
While agreeing that the information officer made a mistake on electoral bonds sales data, the bank has said it won’t give information on donors and recipient political parties under the RTI. In June 2018, the State Bank of India (SBI) refused to disclose information about the buyers of electoral bonds (EBs) and the political parties […]
When conscientious and well-meaning citizens are attacked for “acting rightly”, is the government “acting rightly” by not doing enough to safeguard them? Yet another Right to Information (RTI) activist in Gujarat has paid with his life for demanding transparency. On March 9, Nanjibhai Sondarva (35), a resident of Manekvada village in Kotda Sangani taluka of Rajkot district, was […]