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Jaipur Vidyut Vitran Nigam Ltd. & Ors. v. Mb Power (madhya Pradesh) Limited & Ors.

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Reported as [2024] 1 S.C.R. 909
Bench B. R. Gavai and Prashant Kumar Mishra JJ.
Decided 8 January 2024

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What the Court ordered

We are of the considered view that the mandamus issued by the Court is issued by failing to take into consideration the larger consumers’ interest and the consequential public interest.

Judgment, page 64

From the headnote

Issue for Consideration State Commission held that the tariffs offered by the L-4 and L-5 bidders were not aligned to the prevailing market prices. In appeal by L-5, APTEL held that the State Commission had to necessarily adopt the tariff and had no power to consider whether the tariff was aligned to market prices. Impugned judgment of the High Court relying on the said judgment of the APTEL and the earlier orders of this Court concluded that applying the test of “filling the bucket”, the procurers were bound to take supply from the respondent No.1 at the rates quoted by it and it had a right

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Of those, 1 relied on · 2 referred to

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