Supreme Court of India
Banshidhar Construction Pvt. Ltd. v. Bharat Coking Coal Limited & Others
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What the Court ordered
In view of the above, it is apparent that in government contracts, if granted by the government bodies, it is expected to uphold fairness, equality and rule of law while dealing with contractual matters.
Judgment, page 18
From the headnote
Issue for Consideration Issue arose whether the respondent was justified in rejecting the technical bid of the appellant, while accepting the technical bid of the respondent no. 8-Company, and declaring it to be successful bidder, though the respondent no. 8 had not complied with the mandatory requirement of submitting the important documents relating to the qualification criteria as contained in Clause 10 of the Notice Inviting Tender-NIT. Headnotes† Government Contracts – Judicial Intervention – Scope of – Tender for mega project – Respondent no. 1-BCCL, a public sector undertaking floated
Authorities it was built on
- 1979 Ramana Dayaram Shetty v. The International Airport Authority of India and Ors.
- 1994 Tata Cellular v. Union of India
- 2006 Jagdish Mandal v. State of Orissa and Ors.
- 1993 Sterling Computers Limited Etc. v. M & N Publications Limited and Ors.
- 2016 Central Coalfields Limited & Anr. v. Sll-sml (joint Venture Consortium) & Ors.
- 2022 Mihan India Ltd. v. Gmr Airports Ltd. & Ors
Where later benches applied it
Of those, 1 referred to
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