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Muniyappan standard — §11 third-party notice

§11 notice is mandatory where the third party has treated the information as confidential; omission vitiates the final order.

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 +{{htmlmetatags>metatag-keywords=(Muniyappan standard — §11 third-party notice,Central Information Commission RTI,RTI §8,RTI §11,§11,third party,procedural requirement,Muniyappan)&metatag-description=(§11 notice is mandatory where the third party has treated the information as confidential; omission vitiates the final order.)}}
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 +====== Muniyappan standard — §11 third-party notice ======
 +
 +<WRAP center round info 95%>
 +**Central Information Commission** · 2010-01-01 · Citation awaited · **★ Landmark**
 +</WRAP>
 +
 +
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 +**§11 notice is mandatory where the third party has treated the information as confidential; omission vitiates the final order.**
 +
 +//§11 third-party notice omission vitiates the PIO's final order.//
 +
 +===== Case details =====
 +
 +^ Court | Central Information Commission |
 +^ Decided | 2010-01-01 |
 +^ Citation | Citation awaited |
 +^ Petitioner | various |
 +^ Respondent | various |
 +^ RTI Act sections | §8(1)(d), §8(1)(e) |
 +^ Outcome | Guidance / other |
 +
 +===== Outcome =====
 +
 +§11 notice is mandatory where the third party has treated the information as confidential; omission vitiates the final order.
 +
 +===== Ratio decidendi =====
 +
 +Where information sought was supplied by a third party in confidence, §11 procedure (notice + 10-day opportunity) is mandatory. Its omission is procedurally fatal and the final order is liable to be set aside.
 +
 +===== Keywords =====
 +
 +§11, third party, procedural requirement, Muniyappan
 +
 +===== 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-third-party-fee-bearing-2019|§11 third-party cost-bearing — CIC]] (CIC 2019)
 +  * [[/important-decisions/court/right-to-information-applications-for-gujarat-high-court-pleadings-cannot-be-filed-by-a-third-party|Gujarat HC pleadings — third-party RTI not maintainable]] (HC-GUJ 2019)
 +  * [[/cases/cic-section-11-timeline-2011|§11 40-day total timeline — CIC directive]] (CIC 2011)
 +  * [[/cases/delhi-hc-rti-private-contract-with-govt-2019|Private contractor records with govt — Delhi HC]] (HC-DEL 2019)
 +  * [[/cases/delhi-hc-rti-gstn-data-2020|GSTN / GSTIN data — Delhi HC]] (HC-DEL 2020)
 +
 +===== Related =====
 +
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 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?section=8|All RTI cases turning on §8]]
 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?section=11|All RTI cases turning on §11]]
 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?landmark=1|All landmark rulings]]
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 +  * [[: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>
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 +//Editorial summary · last reviewed 21 April 2026.//
 +
 +{{tag>case-law court-cic section-8 section-11 landmark}}