Supreme Court of India
Tata Motors Limited v. The Brihan Mumbai Electric Supply & Transport Undertaking (best) and Others
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What the Court ordered
We are of the view that the BEST committed no error or cannot be held guilty of favoritism, etc. in allowing EVEY to submit a revised Annexure Y as the earlier one was incorrect on account of a clerical error.
Judgment, page 20
From the headnote
Constitution of India – Power of Judicial review – Contractual/ commercial matters – Held: Courts should exercise a lot of restraint while exercising Powers of judicial review in contractual or commercial matters – In contracts involving technical issues the courts should be even more reluctant – Courts must also not interfere where such interference will cause unnecessary loss to the public exchequer – In the present case, TATA Motors deviated from the material and the essential term of the Tender – High Court having once declared TATA Motors as non-responsive and having stood disqualified…
Authorities it was built on
- 1998 Raunaq International Ltd. v. I.V.R. Construction Ltd. and Ors.
- 2009 Meerut Development Authority v. Association of Management Studies & Anr.
- 2000 Air India v. Cochin International Airport Ltd
- 2004 Association of Registration Plates v. Union of India and Ors.
- 2019 Silppi Constructions Contractors v. Union of India and Anr. Etc. Etc.
- 2000 M/s. Monarch Infrastructure (p) Ltd. v. Commissioner, Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporation and Ors.
- 2013 Maa Binda Express Carrier and Anr. v. Northeast Frontier Railway and Ors.
- 1990 Vasantkumar Radhakisan Vora v. Board of Trustees of the Port of Bombay
- 2009 Steel Authority of India Ltd. v. Gupta Brother Steel Tubes Ltd.
- 2001 West Bengal State Electricity Board v. Patel Engineering Co. Ltd. and Ors.
- 1991 Poddar Steel Corporation v. Ganesh Engineering Works and Others
- 2002 Kanhaiya Lal Agrawal v. Union of India
- 2008 M/s. S.S. & Company v. Orissa Mining Corporation Limited
Where later benches applied it
- 2026 Golden Food Products India v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Others
- 2023 Btl Epc Ltd. v. Macawber Beekay Pvt Ltd and Others
Of those, 1 referred to · 1 mentioned
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