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Information, an accusation, or complaint, also, communicated knowledge.Information means any material in any form, including records, documents, memos, e-mails, opinions, advices, press-releases, circulars, orders, logbooks, contracts, reports, papers, samples, models, data material held in any electronic form and information relating to any private body which can be accessed by a public authority under any other law for the time being in force. [Right to Information Act, 2005, s. 2(f)]Information in chancery. Where a suit was instituted on behalf of the Crown or Government, or of those of whom it had the custody by virtue of its prerogative (such as idiots and lunatics), or whose rights are under its particular protection (such as the objects of a public charity), the matter of complaint was offered to the Court by way of information by the Attorney or Solicitor-General, and not by way of petition. When a suit immediately concerned the crown or government alone, the proceeding was pur...
State Chief Information Commissioner and State Information Commissioner
State Chief Information Commissioner and State Information Commissioner, means the State Chief Information Commissioner and the State Informa-tion Commissioner appointed under sub-section (3) of section 15 [Right to Information Act, 2005 (22 of 2005), s. 2(l)]...
Credit information
Credit information, means any information relating to (i) the amount and the nature of loans or advances, amounts outstanding under credit cards and other credit facilities granted or to be granted, by a credit institution or any borrower; (ii) the nature of security taken or proposed to be taken by a credit institution from any borrower for credit facilities granted or proposed to be granted to him; (iii) the guarantee furnished or any other non-fund based facility granted or proposed to be granted or proposed to be granted by a credit institution for any of its borrowers; (iv) the credit worthiness of any borrower of credit institution; (v) any other matter which the Reserve Bank, consider necessary for inclusion in the credit information to be collected and maintained by credit information companies, and specify, by notification, in this behalf [Credit Information Companies (Regulation) Act, 2005, s. 2(d)]....
First information report
First information report, An information given under sub-s. (1) of s. 154 Cr PC is commonly known as first information report (FIR) though this term is not used in the Code. It is a very important document. And as its nickname suggests it is the earliest and the first information of a cognizable offence recorded by an officer in charge of a police station, T.T. Antony v. State of Kerala, AIR 2001 SC 2637: (2001) 6 SCC 181....
Criminal information
Criminal information, a proceeding in the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice atthe suit of the king,without a previous indictment or presentment by a grand jury. Criminal informa-tions are of two sorts: (1) Ex officio, which is a formal, written suggestion of an offence com-mitted, filed bby the Attorney-General, or, in the vacancy of that office, by the Solicitor-General, in the King's Bench Division of the High Court, without the intervention of a grandjury. It lies for misdemeanours only, and not for treasons or felonies. The informationis filed in the Crown Office without the previous leave of the Court. (2) Information by the Master of the Crown Office, which is filed at the instance of an individual called 'the relator,' with the leave of the Court; and usually confined to gross and notorious misdemeanours, riots, batteries, libels, and other immoralities. Criminal informations may also be filed against judges and magistrates for illegal, unjust,and wilfully oppre...
Latin information
Latin information. The name of an information and action by the Crown, the Duchy of Lancaster or the Duke of Cornwall in the nature of civil proceedings to recover debt or damages for a tort or otherwise, see A.G. v. Valle-Jones, (1935) 2 KB 209 (damage by loss of services); an English information is an information in equity on the revenue side of the King's Bench Division (see Halsb. L. of E., title 'Crown Practice....
Right to information
Right to information, means the right to informa-tion accessible under this Act which is held by or under the control of any public authority and includes the right to--(i) inspection of work, document, records;(ii) taking notes, extracts or certified copies of documents or records;(iii) taking certified samples of material;(iv) obtaining information in the from of diskettes, floppies, tapes, video cassettes or in any other electronic mode or through printouts where such information is stored in a computer or in any other device. [Right of Information Act, 2005, s. 2(j)]...
State Public Information Officer
State Public Information Officer, means the State Public Information Officer designated under sub-section (1) and includes a State Assistant Public Information Officer designated as such under sub-section (2) of section 5. [Right to Information Act, 2005 (22 of 2005), s. 2(m)]...
Freedom of information
Freedom of information, means the right to obtain information from any public authority by means of:(i) inspection, taking of extracts and notes;(ii) certified copies of any records of such public authority;(iii) diskettes, floppies or in any other electronic mode or through printouts where such information is stored in a computer or in any other device. [Freedom of Information Act, 2002 (5 of 2003), s. 2(c)]...
Confidential information
Confidential information, means: (1) information furnished to the council by a government depart-ment upon terms (however expressed) which forbid the disclosure of the information to the public, and (2) information the disclosure of which to the public is prohibited by or under any enactment or by the order of a court; in either case, the reference to the obligation of confidence is to be construed accordingly, Local Government Act, 1972, s. 100A(3) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 1(1), para 39, p. 62....
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