Supreme Court of India

Anil Kumar Srivastava v. State of U.P. and Anr.

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Reported as [2004] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 675
Bench Ashok Bhan and S.H. Kapadia JJ.
Decided 20 August 2004

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What the Court ordered

For the foregoing reasons, we do not find any merit in the Civil Appeal No. 5402 of2004, arising out ofSLP (C) No.7790 of2004, as well as in the Transferred Case No. 54 of2004 (Writ Petition No. 10137 of2004 of Allahabad High Court] and the same are accordingly dismissed, with no order as to costs.

Judgment, page 17

From the headnote

Constitution of India, 1950: Public auction-Tenders invited for construction of a commercial land on a plot of land-Bid quoted by one bidder accepted as his b!d was higher than the reserve price-Validity of-Held: An invitation to tender is not an offer-Acceptance of bids/offers is conditional-It is still open to challenge on the ground that the property has not fetched the proper price and that the sale be set aside-On facts, acceptance of highest bid is valid. Public auction-Scheme floated for construction of a commercial hub on a plot for a shopping mall-Writ petition filed before High

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Of those, 3 referred to

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