M. Sridhar Acharyulu

Teaching being his first love, Dr. M. Sridhar Acharyulu, (pen name Madabhushi Sridhar), joined back the academia (School of Law, Bennett University) after adjudicating thousands of second appeals under Right to Information Act, 2005, as Central Information Commissioner from 22nd November 2013 to 21st November 2018. Sworn in as Central Information Commissioner in 2013 (Five Years Term equivalent in Rank to Election Commissioner/Supreme Court Judge) he gave several landmark judgments on RTI like every patient has right to his/her medical records from public or private hospital, educational qualification is not personal information, the RBI has a duty to disclose the names of wilful defaulters, a voter has to be informed before his vote is deleted, etc.