"No Blacklisting without affording an opportunity to be heard" Gujarat High Court

Following the established judicial guidelines by the Apex Court, the Division Bench of MR.JUSTICE V. M. SAHAI and MR.JUSTICE A.J. DESAI of Gujarat High Court allowed a writ with a significant observations in tune with the Rules of the Natural Justice, in respect of the impugned Blacklisting of the petitioner offset printing press, by the government agency, in a recently adjudicated proceedings of SPECIAL CIVIL APPLICATION No. 13929 of 2011, that " the order (of Blacklisting) cannot be passed without issuing any notice or without affording an opportunity of hearing to the affected party.The law contemplates that prior to passing of the impugned order of blacklisting, opportunity of hearing has to be afforded to the affected party as the blacklisting entails civil consequences.