Supreme Court of India

Noble Resources Ltd. v. State of Orissa and Anr

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Reported as [2006] SUPP. 6 S.C.R. 53
Bench S.B. Sinha and Dal Veer Bhandari JJ.
Decided 13 September 2006

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that although the approach of the High Court was not entirely correct, its ultimate decision to D refuse to exercise its discretionary jurisdiction cannot be faulted with.

Judgment, page 19

From the headnote

Constitution of India, 1950; Articles 12, 14 and 226: Contract-Supply of iron ore fines of grading , and within a c stipulated time period-Rise in price of grade variety in international market-Non-supply of agreed quantity by the supplier .. md issuance of fresh ) / tender-Challenge to--Dismissed by High Court holding that i~ involved enforcement of a contract qua contract and thus not maintainable-On appeal, Held: Supplier-Corporation is a State in terms of Article 12 of the. Constitution- writ petition would be maintainable against the State if it acted in violation of equality clause in

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