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M/s. B.S.N. Joshi and Sons Ltd. v. Nair Coal Services Ltd. and Ors.

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Reported as [2006] SUPP. 8 S.C.R. 11
Bench S.B. Sinha and Dal Veer Bhandari JJ.
Decided 31 October 2006

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Contract Act, I 872: Section 3. Tender-Notice inviting tender- "Declared defaulter"-Ejfect of-Held: When a contractor is black-listed by a department, he is debarred from obtaining a contract-However, in terms of notice inviting tender, when a tenderer is declared to be a defaulter, he may not get any contract at al/- The same would, thus, have a disastrous effect on him- 'Declared defaulter' should be an actual defaulter and not an alleged defaulter-Hence, so long as the dispute is not resolved, the contractor may not be declared to be a defaulter. Tender-Notice inviting tender-State

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