In a major directive, the State Information Commission has held that notes in files should be treated as information under the Right to Information Act (RTI)-2005 and that an appellant could not be denied the right to access to such information, an official release said. The Commission, while hearing a complaint by Jakir Hussain, Deputy Director, Employment and Vocational Training, said that as an independent judicial commission, it had the right to interpret the RTI Act without getting influenced by Government directives. Besides, the Central Information Commission has already concluded that the RTI Act covered under its purview both files and file-notes.