Supreme Court of India
Tata Motors Limited v. The Brihan Mumbai Electric Supply & Transport Undertaking (best) and Others
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What the Court ordered
We are of the view that the B EST committed no error or cannot be held guilty of favorit ism, etc. in allowing EVEY to submit a revised Annexure Y as the earlier one was incorrec t on account of a clerical error.
Judgment, page 20
From the headnote
Constitution of India – Power of Judicial review – Contractua l/ commercial matters – Held: Courts should exercise a lot o f restraint while exercising Powers of judicial review in contr actual or commercial matters – In contracts involving technic al issues the courts should be even more reluctant – Courts must also not interfere where such interference will cause unnecessary loss to the public exchequer – In the present case, TATA Motors deviat ed from the material and the essential term of the Tender – High Court having once declared TATA Motors as non-responsive and hav ing stood
Authorities it was built on
- 1998 Raunaq International Ltd. v. I.V.R. Construction Ltd. and Ors.
- 2009 Meerut Development Authority v. Association of Management Studies & Anr.
- 2000 Air India v. Cochin International Airport Ltd
- 2004 Association of Registration Plates v. Union of India and Ors.
- 2000 M/s. Monarch Infrastructure (p) Ltd. v. Commissioner, Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporation and Ors.
- 2013 Maa Binda Express Carrier and Anr. v. Northeast Frontier Railway and Ors.
- 2009 Steel Authority of India Ltd. v. Gupta Brother Steel Tubes Ltd.
- 2001 West Bengal State Electricity Board v. Patel Engineering Co. Ltd. and Ors.
- 1991 Poddar Steel Corporation v. Ganesh Engineering Works and Others
- 1990 Vasantkumar Radhakisan Vora v. Board of Trustees of the Port of Bombay
- 2002 Kanhaiya Lal Agrawal v. Union of India
- 2019 Silppi Constructions Contractors v. Union of India and Anr. Etc. Etc.
- 2008 M/s. S.S. & Company v. Orissa Mining Corporation Limited
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