Recording the government's silence. One denial at a time. An initiative by The Reporters' Collective
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Hear hear, we at @reporters_co and @rti404 have been opposing the DPDP Act and its devastating impact on information that is of public interest.
Perhaps the govt will sit up now that bigger players see it as being damaging to them as well.
Read: rti404.com/privacy-101
We at The Reporters Collective @reporters_co, a tiny non-profit newsroom, stood up to defend journalism against govt attempt to paralyse the profession through a Trojan horse in the Privacy law. We filed a case before the Supreme Court in February 2026 and launched rti404.com, a watchdog project to protect RTI and journalism, both.
Months later the for- profit big media businesses have realised, not just journalism but revenue of their media business would be hurt too by what the govt is doing.
We are glad they have eventually seen value in joining us.
Read Our Statement from February 16, 2026. 👇
reporters-collective.in/blog…
RTI404 retweeted
We at The Reporters Collective @reporters_co, a tiny non-profit newsroom, stood up to defend journalism against govt attempt to paralyse the profession through a Trojan horse in the Privacy law. We filed a case before the Supreme Court in February 2026 and launched rti404.com, a watchdog project to protect RTI and journalism, both.
Months later the for- profit big media businesses have realised, not just journalism but revenue of their media business would be hurt too by what the govt is doing.
We are glad they have eventually seen value in joining us.
Read Our Statement from February 16, 2026. 👇
reporters-collective.in/blog…
EXCLUSIVE: India’s biggest news publishers including Ambani's Network18, Adani's NDTV, Indian Express, Times Internet & others mount the most high-profile challenge yet to Modi’s privacy law, warning it would “render investigative journalism a benign and neutered recorder of events.”
DNPA (@publishers_news) has taken the law to the Supreme Court. They argue it would trample investigative work and let New Delhi identify journalists’ sources.
The provisions “constitute pre-censorship which is anathema to any democracy worth its name,” the group’s 698-page filing says.
The key concerns:
🔹 Consent: requiring a journalist to notify the subject of an investigation and seek consent “would allow that subject to destroy evidence, intimidate witnesses”
🔹 Erasure: people can withdraw consent and demand their data be erased, which the group says could force publishers to unpublish or heavily redact news reports
🔹 Sources: a “nakedly unguided” power to demand information that “can extend to privileged communications in possession of a reporter or the informant”
In a letter to the government, the group said India “has chosen to grant broad exemptions to the state, while failing to extend any corresponding protection to the press.”
reuters.com/business/media-t…
21 years ago, a people’s movement in Beawar, Rajasthan, compelled the India govt to pass the RTI Act. The anniversary celebration included MKSS’s “ghotala yatra” (scam procession), a riff on Advani’s Ram Rath Yatra.
To learn about the RTI visit: rti404.com/rti-101
Despite much criticism, PM Narendra Modi’s govt brought cheetahs to India. Most of them died. But when a wildlife activist filed an RTI to know their cause of death, the govt was quick to cite “national security”.
Source: The Wire
For more RTI news visit rti404.com
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The Ram Mandir is in the news because of a donations scandal. Back in 2023 itself, an RTI applicant had sought the government order containing details of how the Temple Trust would be run.
By God’s grace, this RTI was denied.
Visit rti404.com to know why.
The Ram Mandir is in the news because of a donations scandal. Back in 2023 itself, an RTI applicant had sought the government order containing details of how the Temple Trust would be run.
By God’s grace, this RTI was denied.
Visit rti404.com to know why.
File an RTI with the PMO and MHA on police action in Delhi since 2 October. Also, the RTI Act has turned 21, & we can’t think of a better way to celebrate.
Draft RTI and filing guide at the link. shorturl.at/n8HsO
And if they deny it, there’s rti404.com.
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For the times that Gyanesh Kumar refuses to tell you, there’s RTI.
And for the times the public authorities decide to pull a Gyanesh Kumar on your RTI, there’s rti404.com
At RTI404, we have been screaming about RTIs going unanswered.
And now with SIR even our Election Commissioners have been kept in the dark by their Chief.
Our suggestion: ECs can file their questions through RTI & in case of a denial visit us at rti404.com
At RTI404, we have been screaming about RTIs going unanswered.
And now with SIR even our Election Commissioners have been kept in the dark by their Chief.
Our suggestion: ECs can file their questions through RTI & in case of a denial visit us at rti404.com
Nitin Gadkari faces allegations of a vested interest in ethanol blending.
So an RTI asked: What does it mean? Who supplies the govt’s E20?
Govt: No larger public interest in telling you.
More denials at rti404.com
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And, we at #RTI404, are keeping a record of RTIs the government has denied or met with silence. Find us at rti404.com 📁
We're also working on exciting updates detailing how RTI has become an endangered democratic tool (Hint: DPDP Act). Stay tuned.
TN govt withdraws its order exempting the Public (Law and Order) Dept from the RTI Act after backlash.
The dept handles inquiries into custodial deaths and police torture, which is crucial given the state's recent string of custodial deaths.
RTI news: rti404.com
Have you ever filed an RTI only to get this response from the govt: 'We can’t tell you. Sorry, not sorry.'
At @rti404, we are building a database of RTI denials.
You can submit yours here: rti404.com/add-to-record or email them to [email protected]
Who ordered RAF to fire pellets at student protestors in July?
@rti404 filed an RTI with CRPF, which heads RAF.
Their reply: "no violation of human rights” or allegation of corruption, so no answer owed. CRPF never denied pellet guns were used.
For more rti404.com
Under the privacy law, what happens if an ordinary citizen reports any wrongdoing?
A penalty of up to ₹250 crores!
@sanitarypanels presents the government’s acts of love towards all criminals.
Check out our previous posts of this series on @rti404_filenotfound
To know more about the privacy law, visit privacy101 on our website rti404.com/privacy-101