The police and forensic bodies Kerala keeps outside the Right to Information Act

Background

This background is anchored to Kerala's gazette notification taking the T branch of the Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau out of the Right to Information Act. Section 24 of the Right to Information Act, 2005 keeps notified intelligence and security organisations outside the Act, and Section 24(4) is the power a State Government uses to notify the organisations it has itself established. The bodies Kerala has notified include the Special Branch CID, the Crime Branch CID, the district Special Branches, the Crime Record Bureaus, the Police Telecommunication Unit, the police confidential branches and sections, the State and regional Forensic Science Laboratories, the Finger Print Bureau and the Home special sections in the Secretariat. Even for a notified body, information relating to allegations of corruption and of human rights violations is not excluded.