Supreme Court of India

Lifecare Innovations Pvt. Ltd. & Anr. v. Union of India & Ors.

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Reported as [2025] 2 S.C.R. 727
Bench Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha and Sandeep Mehta JJ.
Decided 24 February 2025

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What the Court ordered

We hold that these bodies are accountable, and their function is subject to judicial review.

Judgment, page 21

From the headnote

Issue for Consideration Issue arose whether the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Act, 2006, coupled with the Public Procurement Policy for Micro and Small Enterprises Order 2012 mandate procurement of 25 percent of goods and services by the government, and its instrumentalities from the Micro and Small Industrial Enterprises; and whether the prescription of mandatory minimum turnover clause in Notice Inviting Tenders is violative of Arts.14 and 19 of the Constitution, provisions of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Act, 2006 and the Procurement Preference

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 referred to · 2 mentioned

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