Judgment

JAYACHANDRA REDDY, J.:- All these Special Leave Petitions arise out of the common judgment of the High Court of Delhi in Civil Writ Petitions Nos. 1152 and 982 1157/92. We heard these matters for considerable length of time. Eminent counsel appearing on both sides advanced detailed arguments. After the conclusion of the hearing it was represented that having regard to the constraint of time factor, namely that the contracts with the Railways entered into by the manufacturers who are parties, have to be completed very soon the judgment in these matters has to be delivered as early as possible or at least the conclusions have to be given soon. We are conscious of the fact that it is likely to take considerable time to deliver a detailed judgment. However, having gone through the records carefully and after due consideration of the various arguments advanced, we have reached the conclusions given hereunder and we propose to deliver the detailed judgment at a later stage giving all the reasons in support of these conclusions. We, however, think it necessary to state a few relevant facts and the issues involved in a concised form before we set out our conclusions.

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