New Delhi, Jun 19 (PTI) Citing recent exemption given to it by the government, the CBI has refused to make public information about disproportionate asset cases against government servants, including bureaucrats and ministers.

The Centre through a notification issued on June 9 placed the agency in the organisations listed in the second schedule of the Section 24 of the RTI Act which also comprises intelligence and security agencies.

The exemption granted to agencies listed in the second schedule does not give blanket immunity from making disclosures under the transparency law as the Act states that information on "allegations" of corruption and human rights violation is to be disclosed even by these organisations.

Ironically, the CBI officials feel that by placing them under second schedule organisation, they have got blanket cover from making any disclosure as it was evident from the reply given to activist S C Agrawal by the agency.