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 +{{htmlmetatags>metatag-keywords=(Defying Commission order — Madras HC,High Court of Madras RTI,RTI §18,RTI §19,RTI §20,contempt,Madras HC,Commission defiance,§20)&metatag-description=(Willful defiance of a Commission's direction is actionable via contempt under the Contempt of Courts Act 1971 through the High Court.)&metatag-robots=(noindex,follow)}}
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 +====== Defying Commission order — Madras HC ======
 +
 +<WRAP center round info 95%>
 +**High Court of Madras** · 2020-01-01 · Citation awaited
 +</WRAP>
 +
 +
 +
 +**Willful defiance of a Commission's direction is actionable via contempt under the Contempt of Courts Act 1971 through the High Court.**
 +
 +//Willful defiance of Commission direction is contempt — actionable via Art.215 HC jurisdiction.//
 +
 +===== Case details =====
 +
 +^ Court | High Court of Madras |
 +^ Decided | 2020-01-01 |
 +^ Citation | Citation awaited |
 +^ Petitioner | RTI applicant |
 +^ Respondent | Defaulting PIO |
 +^ RTI Act sections | §18, §19, §20 |
 +^ Outcome | Applicant allowed |
 +
 +===== Outcome =====
 +
 +Willful defiance of a Commission's direction is actionable via contempt under the Contempt of Courts Act 1971 through the High Court.
 +
 +===== Ratio decidendi =====
 +
 +Information Commissions' directions are binding. Willful and knowing defiance by a PIO / public authority amounts to contempt and may be pursued through the High Court under the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 read with Article 215 of the Constitution, in addition to §20 penalty.
 +
 +===== Keywords =====
 +
 +contempt, Madras HC, Commission defiance, §20
 +
 +===== Similar cases in the corpus =====
 +
 +//These rulings have the closest editorial ratio to this case — computed by tf-idf cosine similarity over ratio, keywords and Act sections. Useful starting points if you are researching the same point of law.//
 +
 +  * [[/cases/cic-rti-court-ordered-non-disclosure-2018|Court-directed non-disclosure — §8(1)(b) — CIC]] (CIC 2018)
 +  * [[/cases/sc-rti-section-23-civil-courts-bar-2017|§23 civil-courts bar — SC clarification]] (SC 2017)
 +  * [[/cases/sc-natural-justice-rti-commission-hearing-2020|Natural justice in Information Commission hearings]] (SC 2020)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-rti-high-court-registry-2022|High Court Registry records — CIC]] (CIC 2022)
 +  * [[/cases/madras-hc-rti-pension-delay-2022|Pension sanction delay — Madras HC]] (HC-MAD 2022)
 +
 +===== Related =====
 +
 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?court=HC-MAD|All High Court of Madras rulings in the corpus]]
 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?section=18|All RTI cases turning on §18]]
 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?section=19|All RTI cases turning on §19]]
 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?section=20|All RTI cases turning on §20]]
 +  * [[:cases:search|Full case-law search]]
 +  * [[:cases|Case-Law Database — overview]]
 +  * [[:pio-rti-reply-guide|PIO RTI Reply Guide]]
 +  * [[:act|The RTI Act, 2005 — annotated]]
 +
 +<WRAP center round alert 95%>
 +**Editorial summary, not a certified report.** The ratio here is an editorial compression. Before citing this ruling in a PIO order, FAA speaking order, or any appellate filing, **verify against the full reported decision**. RTI Wiki is not a legal service.
 +</WRAP>
 +
 +
 +
 +//Editorial summary · last reviewed 21 April 2026.//
 +
 +{{tag>case-law court-hc-mad section-18 section-19 section-20}}