A plea has been filed before the Telangana High Court alleging that the State government has failed to make public over 1.16 lakh Government Orders (GOs) issued since June 2014 despite earlier court directions to upload them online [B Vinay Reddy v The State of Telangana & Ors.].
Filed by one B Vinay Reddy, the petition claims that the State government had informed the Telangana Legislative Assembly in March 2025 that 1,99,115 GOs had been issued between June 2, 2014 and March 14, 2025, of which only 82,657 were available in the public domain.
As per the plea, 1,16,458 GOs or around 58.5 per cent are not publicly accessible.
A subsequent response to an RTI application, dated November 18, 2025, showed that only 3,290 of the 19,064 GOs issued between December 7, 2023 and January 26, 2025 were available in the public domain.
The plea is pending before Justice Surepalli Nanda.
The plea alleges that the State government departments classify GOs as either 'public' or 'internal' on the Government Order Issue Register (GOIR) portal. It contends that departments withhold GOs without issuing reasoned orders citing Sections 8 or 9 of the RTI Act, which specify grounds for denying access to information. The petition argues that this practice prevents citizens from accessing government decisions that may affect their rights.
As per the plea,
“A Government Order which is kept out of the public domain cannot be known, obeyed, questioned or relied upon by the citizen whose rights it affects."
The plea also refers to two earlier High Court orders passed on March 10, 2022 and December 23, 2025, directing the State to upload unpublished GOs within eight weeks. The petition submits that the directions have not been fully implemented.
A contempt of court case concerning alleged non-compliance is also pending before the Court.
The petitioner has sought directions from the High Court to the State government to publish all GOs issued since June 2, 2014, except those withheld for legally valid reasons. It also seeks disclosure of department-wise figures on unpublished orders, deadlines for uploading future orders and appointment of officers responsible for publishing them.
The plea also challenges delays in responding to Reddy’s Right to Information (RTI) application filed on January 17, 2026, seeking year-wise and department-wise details of GOs issued and uploaded since 2014, reasons for non-publication and the rules governing it.
The plea further alleges that the Telangana Information Commission took up Reddy's complaint, filed on February 22, only on July 15. It was heard three times without a decision and adjourned on October 13 without a next date being fixed. The petition also claims that the Commission had failed to provide hearing records or facilitate video-conference participation.
“A body created to enforce transparency cannot withhold from a party the record of his own proceeding,” states the plea.
The petition seeks directions to provide the requested RTI information free of cost within two weeks and decide his pending complaint within four weeks. It also seeks hybrid hearings, at least seven days’ advance notice of hearing dates and uploading of hearing records within three days.
The plea was filed through advocate Mahesh Mamindla.