Government withdraws Public Law and Order department RTI exemption

The Indian Express reports that the government revoked its order exempting the Public (Law and Order) Department from the RTI Act after criticism from allies and transparency campaigners. The report identifies the withdrawn order as GO Ms.No.57, dated September 21. This is a reversal of a specific exemption, not proof that every requested record will now be released. The accountability question is how information requests are handled in practice. The tracker records both the restriction and its withdrawal rather than treating the reversal alone as completion of a transparency promise.