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I N THE HI GH COURT FOR THE STATE OF TELANGANA AT HYDERABAD

HON’BLE MRS. JUSTI CE SUREPALLI NANDA

WRI T PETI TI ON No.9843 OF 2026

DATE: 02.04.2026

Betw een :

Boddupalli Shankaraiah … Petitioner

A n d

The State Information Commission represented by its Information Commissioner,

SamacharaHaku Bhavan, Behind Mojamjahi Market, Hyderabad and others

… Respondents

ORDER

Heard Sri R. Lakshmi Narsimha Rao, learned

counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner and the learned Assistant Government Pleader for I nformation Technology appearing on behalf of the

respondents.

2. The petitioner approached the Court seeking

prayer as under:

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“…to issue Writ, Order or Direction more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Mandamus declaring the order in Complaint No. 6915/ SIC- MP/2022 dated 29.08.2025 passed by the Respondent No.1, Telangana State Information Commission , Hyderabad as arbitrary , illegal and unjust and voilative of Article 19 (1) (a) of Constitution of India and consequently set aside the same and direct the Respondent No. 1 to consider the Complaint No. 6915/SIC-MP/2022 afresh in accordance with law after giving the petitioner opportunity of hearing him by duly serving notice of hearing of the case on the petitioner

and pass…”

3. The case of the petitioner in brief as per the averments made in the affidavit filed by the petitioner

in support of the present Writ Petition is as under:-

i) The petitioner filed an application dated 23.03.2022 under Section 6(1) of the Right to Information Act, 2005 before Respondent No.2 seeking information regarding the status of the petitioner’s job proposal dated 15.09.2008 for appointment on compassionate grounds. However, the said

information was not furnished.

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ii) Aggrieved by the inaction, the petitioner preferred an appeal under Section 18(1) of the RTI Act before Respondent No.1. Due to non-appointment of commissioners, the matter remained pending for a

considerable time.

iii) Subsequently, Respondent No.1 passed an order dated 29.08.2025 without issuing notice to the petitioner or providing an opportunity of hearing, which was communicated on 08.01.2026 to the petitioner. Aggrieved by the same, the petitioner approached this Court by filing

the present writ petition.

PERUSED THE RECORD:

A) The relevant portion of the order passed by the Telangana I nformation Commission dated 29.08.2025 in the Complaint No.6915/ SI C-MP/ 2022, is extracted

hereunder:

“The Complaint was taken on file and notices were issued to both the parties for hearing on 29-08-2025.

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The case is called on 29-08-2025. The Complainant is absent. The Public Information Officer is

absent.

The Assistant Public Information Officer is present and filed an affidavit stating that vide letter No.

SE/OP/KNR/DE(T)/PO/JAO(L&RTI)/S2/PIO-

559/D.No.209/23 dated 27-04-2023 sought information was furnished to the complainant which was received from the Divisional Engineer/MRT/Karimnagar through

letter dated 20-01-2023.

Heard the Assistant Public Information Officer and perused the records.

As the sought information was furnished, the complaint is closed.”

DI SCUSSI ON AND CONCLUSI ON:

4. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner mainly puts forth the follow ing

submissions:

4.1 Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner submits that, in response to the appeal filed by the petitioner under Section 18(1) of the RTI Act, 2005 before the Telangana Information Commission, Hyderabad against the public authority, a notice dated 19.08.2025 in Case

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No.6915/SIC-MP/2022 was issued by the office of the Telangana Information Commission, Hyderabad, calling upon the petitioner to appear in person before the Commission at 10:30 a.m. on 29^th August, 2025, at Court Hall No.2, Room No. GF-5, Ground Floor, along with certain

documents.

4.2 The said notice was received by the petitioner on 03.09.2025, however, without

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