Supreme Court of India

M/s New Horizons Ltd. and Another v. Union of India and Others

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Reported as [1994] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 310

Bench S.C. Agra Wal and M.K. Mukherjee JJ.

Decided 9 November 1994

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Constitution, of India-Article 14--Tender for compiling, printing and supplying telephone directories-Tenderer a joint venture with one of its constituents having the requisite experience-Tenderer offering royalty with large margin of difference-Tender Evaluation Committee not considering tender on technical considerations, that tenderer did not have experience fn their own name and had not substantiated their capacity to execute the work-Whether arbitrary-Held, a certain measure of 'free play in the joints' is necessary for an administrative body functioning in an admistrptive sphere-Jn

Authorities it was built on

1979 Ramana Dayaram Shetty v. The International Airport Authority of India and Ors. cited by 124

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 3 relied on · 4 referred to · 1 not applicable

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