JUDGMENT :

T.S. Sivagnanam, J.

1. This writ appeal is directed against the order in Writ Petition No. 9984 of 2016, dated 21.08.2018.

2. The appellant filed the said writ petition challenging the proceedings of respondents 1 and 2 dated 18.01.2016 and for a consequential direction to the same respondents to apply the provisions of Section 8(1)(e)(j) and Section 11 of the Right to Information Act, 2005 (hereinafter referred to as “the RTI Act”), for the connected queries in the RTI application filed by the third respondent and prosecuted by the fourth respondent in respect of the appellant-institution.

3. The learned Single Bench opined that the impugned proceedings which was challenged before it was only a show cause notice and accordingly, held that no writ proceedings can be entertained against a show cause notice in a routine manner; judicial review against a show cause notice is clearly limited and intermittent interventions are not preferable when a statutory commission has undertaken the process of conducting enquiry under the provisions of the RTI Act. Accordingly, the Writ Court dismissed the writ petition directing the appellant to respond to the show cause notice issued by th