Supreme Court of India

The Madras Aluminium Co. Ltd. v. The Tamil Nadu Electricity Board and Anr.

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Reported as [2023] 10 S.C.R. 742
Bench B. R. Gavai, Sanjay Karol and Aravind Kumar JJ.
Decided 6 July 2023

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Contract – State, a party to the contract must abide by Art icle 14 – Reasonable period to consider an application – pplication made by the appellant for reduction to 10000 Kilovolt-Amper e (KVA) – No steps effectuating such request were taken des pite repeated follow ups by the appellant – Action of the respondent s in taking considerable time from when the said application was made, to w hen the revised agreement was entered into, if arbitrar y and unreasonable – Held: Yes – State action irrespective of being in the contractual realm must abide by Article 14 – Appell ant was unjustifiably

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