Supreme Court of India

Union of India & Ors. v. Tantia Construction Pvt. Ltd.

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Reported as [2011] 5 S.C.R. 397
Bench Altamas Kabir and Cyriac Joseph JJ.
Decided 18 April 2011

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the letter dated 12th April, 2008, did not cover the extended work on account of the alteration of the design and was confined to the work originally 8 contracted for.

Judgment, page 18

From the headnote

CONTRACT: Tender - Risk and Cost Tender - Construction of Rail c Over-Bridge - Tender of respondent-company accepted and agreement entered into between the parties - Changes in design thereafter whereby Viaduct had to be extended involving additional cost - Respondent-company declining to take up the construction work of extended Viaduct which wa:? 0 not covered in agreement and for which a separate tender was floated - Railways directing the Company to carry out the complete work including the additional work - Held: The work relating to construction of Rail Over-bridge a~er the revised

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