Supreme Court of India
National Thermal Power Corporation Ltd. v. M/s. Ashok Kumar Singh & Ors.
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Government contracts: Forfeiture of earnest money on withdrawal of bids- Challenged- Held: In terms of condition no.2 of Special condition of contract, revocation of tender was by itself sufficient to call for forfeiture of earnest money- Therefore, respondents cannot contend that the right to withdraw the bid in terms of s. 5 of the Contract Act, 1872 would entitle them to withdraw without suffering forfeiture of the earnest money. Allowing the appeal, the Court HELD: plain reading of Condition no.2 of Special Conditions of Contract would show that one of the Special Conditions of Contract,
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