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Natural justice in Information Commission hearings

Both parties — applicant and PIO — entitled to fair hearing at the Commission before adverse directions. IC hearings are quasi-judicial; both parties must receive.

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 +{{htmlmetatags>metatag-keywords=(Natural justice in Information Commission hearings,Supreme Court of India RTI,RTI §18,RTI §19,natural justice,Commission,quasi-judicial,fair hearing)&metatag-description=(Both parties — applicant and PIO — entitled to fair hearing at the Commission before adverse directions. IC hearings are quasi-judicial; both parties must receive.)}}
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 +====== Natural justice in Information Commission hearings ======
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 +<WRAP center round info 95%>
 +**Supreme Court of India** · 2020-01-01 · Citation awaited
 +</WRAP>
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 +**Both parties — applicant and PIO — entitled to fair hearing at the Commission before adverse directions. IC hearings are quasi-judicial; both parties must receive.**
 +
 +//IC hearings are quasi-judicial; both parties must receive fair notice and opportunity to be heard.//
 +
 +===== Case details =====
 +
 +^ Court | Supreme Court of India |
 +^ Decided | 2020-01-01 |
 +^ Citation | Citation awaited |
 +^ Petitioner | various appellants |
 +^ Respondent | CIC / SIC |
 +^ RTI Act sections | §18, §19 |
 +^ Outcome | Partly allowed |
 +
 +===== Outcome =====
 +
 +Both parties — applicant and PIO — entitled to fair hearing at the Commission before adverse directions.
 +
 +===== Ratio decidendi =====
 +
 +Proceedings before the Information Commission are quasi-judicial. Both the applicant and the public authority must be given fair notice, access to the record, and opportunity to be heard before the Commission passes any direction adversely affecting either party.
 +
 +===== Keywords =====
 +
 +natural justice, Commission, quasi-judicial, fair hearing
 +
 +===== 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/madras-hc-rti-right-of-audience-2020|Applicant's right to be heard at FAA / Commission — Madras HC]] (HC-MAD 2020)
 +  * [[/cases/namit-sharma-v-uoi-2012-sc|Namit Sharma v. Union of India]] (SC 2012)
 +  * [[/cases/khanapuram-gandaiah-2010-sc|Khanapuram Gandaiah v. Administrative Officer]] (SC 2010)
 +  * [[/cases/uoi-v-namit-sharma-review-2013-sc|Union of India v. Namit Sharma (Review)]] (SC 2013)
 +  * [[/important-decisions/court/anjali-bhardwaj-vs-union-of-india|Anjali Bhardwaj v. Union of India]] (SC 2019)
 +
 +===== Related =====
 +
 +  * [[https://righttoinformation.wiki/cases/search?court=SC|All Supreme Court of India 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]]
 +  * [[: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-sc section-18 section-19}}