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20) blacklisting the petitioner-company has been passed.

The petitioner-company in consortium with another entity i.e. Darashaw, submitted a bid for appointment as a project consultant for the Kannur International Airport Project. After evaluation of the bids, STUP-Darashaw Consortium was appointed as the project consultant or he said project, as they were the top scoring consortium in the technical bid and secured highest marks in the techno financial assessment based on their credentials. On 21.08.2012, the Project Consultancy Service Agreement was signed by the petitioner-company on behalf of STUP- Darashaw Consortium with Kannur International Airport Ltd. However, on 21.08.2012, a disgruntled unsuccessful bidder namely MIR Projects & Consultants Pvt. Ltd., filed a Writ Petition bearing No.19826 of 2012 before the High Court of Kerala, challenging the decision of the Kannur International Airport Ltd. in awarding the Kannur International Airport Project to the petitioner-company on the ground that the petitioner- company has been blacklisted from the list of PIDB by the Government of Punjab vide order dated 27.03.2009 (Annexure P-20) and this made the petitioner-company ineligible in participation in the bid and the petitioner had obtained the project by concealing the blacklisting orders in the affidavit filed. At that stage, the petitioner made an attempt to find out, "whether the order dated 27.03.2009 (Annexure P-20) was served upon the petitioner-company at its official address at Delhi or not." Later on it had come out that the said order was served at its Chandigarh address.