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The Right to Information Act, 2005

Section 9. Grounds for rejection to access in certain cases.

Without prejudice to the provisions of section 8, a Central Public Information Officer or a State Public Information Officer, as the case may be, may reject a request for information where such a request for providing access would involve an infringement of copyright subsisting in a person other than the State.

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