Kochi Corporation’s move to put a leash on serial RTI ‘abusers’ triggers backlash

Supreme Court lawyer Kaleeswaram Raj said the move went against the spirit of the RTI Act, which does not prescribe any ceiling on the number of applications that can be filedThe Kochi Corporation’s decision to put a leash on what it perceived as serial abusers of the Right to Information (RTI) Act seems to have landed the UDF council in trouble, with the move drawing flak from the opposition LDF, legal experts, and RTI activists alike.