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Jagdish Mandal vs State Of Orissa & Ors on 11 December, 2006

Before dealing with this contention, this court finds it apposite to refer to the judgment of the Hon'ble Supreme Court passed in Jagdish Mandal v. State of Orissa, (2007) 14 SCC 517, wherein it has (Downloaded on 27/11/2024 at 09:46:41 PM) [2024:RJ-JD:47629] (12 of 15) [CW-18724/2024] been observed that the purpose of the judicial review of administrative actions is to check whether the choice or decision is made lawfully and not to check whether such choice or decision is sound. The relevant paragraph of the aforesaid judgment in as under:
Supreme Court of India Cites 9 - Cited by 887 - R V Raveendran - Full Document

Afcons Infrastructure Ltd vs Nagpur Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. & Anr on 15 September, 2016

19. Further, the learned counsel for the petitioner has made a submission that such condition has been incorporated with malafide intention so as to reduce the competition and favour a few contractors, however, the petitioner has failed to make out a case how it is malafide and also to implead any such contractors to show the malafide intention on the part of respondent no.1. At this juncture, this court finds it apposite to refer to the judgment of the Hon'ble Supreme Court passed in Afcons Infrastructure Ltd. v. Nagpur Metro Rail Corpn. Ltd., (2016) 16 SCC 818, wherein it was observed that the threshold of malafides, intention to favour someone must be met before the constitutional court (Downloaded on 27/11/2024 at 09:46:41 PM) [2024:RJ-JD:47629] (9 of 15) [CW-18724/2024] interferes with the decision making process. The relevant paragraph of the aforesaid judgment is reproduced as under:
Supreme Court of India Cites 8 - Cited by 560 - M B Lokur - Full Document

The Silppi Constructions Contractors vs Union Of India on 21 June, 2019

"20. The essence of the law laid down in the judgments referred to above is the exercise of restraint and caution; the need for overwhelming public interest to justify judicial intervention in matters of contract involving the State instrumentalities; the courts should give way to the opinion of the experts unless the decision is totally arbitrary or (Downloaded on 27/11/2024 at 09:46:41 PM) [2024:RJ-JD:47629] (10 of 15) [CW-18724/2024] unreasonable; the court does not sit like a court of appeal over the appropriate authority; the court must realise that the authority floating the tender is the best judge of its requirements and, therefore, the court's interference should be minimal. The authority which floats the contract or tender, and has authored the tender documents is the best judge as to how the documents have to be interpreted. If two interpretations are possible then the interpretation of the author must be accepted. The courts will only interfere to prevent arbitrariness, irrationality, bias, mala fides or perversity. With this approach in mind we shall deal with the present case."
Supreme Court of India Cites 15 - Cited by 312 - D Gupta - Full Document
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