New Delhi, Feb. 15 -- The Supreme Court on Monday will hear a batch of petitions challenging amendments to the Right to Information (RTI) Act introduced through the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, contending that they remove the discretion of information commissioners to decide whether disclosure of personal information serves a larger public interest.

The first plea, filed by the National Campaign for Peoples' Right to Information (NCPRI) through advocate Prashant Bhushan, challenges Section 44 of the DPDP Act as unconstitutional. It argues that the amendment effectively imposes a blanket bar on disclosure of personal information under Section 8(1)(j) of the RTI Act. The other petitions to be heard by the court include one ...