Applicant's right to be heard at FAA / Commission — Madras HC

Quick Reply: An applicant has the right to be heard at FAA and Information Commission before an adverse order. Applicant's right to be heard at FAA / IC — adverse orders. </WRAP>

Applicant's right to be heard at FAA / IC — adverse orders passed ex parte are liable to be set aside. ===== Case details ===== ^ Court | High Court of Madras | ^ Decided | 2020-01-01 | ^ Citation | Citation awaited | ^ Petitioner | RTI applicant | ^ Respondent | FAA / SIC | ^ RTI Act sections | §18, §19 | ^ Outcome | Applicant allowed | ===== Outcome ===== An applicant has the right to be heard at FAA and Information Commission before an adverse order. ===== Ratio decidendi ===== Proceedings before the FAA and the Information Commission affecting the applicant's rights to information require notice and opportunity to be heard. An adverse order passed without hearing the applicant is liable to be set aside on writ review. ===== Keywords ===== right to be heard, Madras HC, FAA, §19, natural justice ===== 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. * Natural justice in Information Commission hearings (SC 2020) * Union of India v. R. Jayachandran (SC 2017) * Muniyappan standard — §11 third-party notice (CIC 2010) * Pension sanction delay — Madras HC (HC-MAD 2022) * K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India (SC 2017) ===== Related ===== * All High Court of Madras rulings in the corpus * All RTI cases turning on §18 * All RTI cases turning on §19 * Full case-law search * Case-Law Database — overview * PIO RTI Reply Guide * The RTI Act, 2005 — annotated

Editorial summary · last reviewed 21 April 2026.