JUDGMENT

Petitioner seeks special leave to appeal to this Court from the order dated 17th February, 1993 of the Kerala High Court dismissing the petitioners Writ Appeal No. 280 of 1993. Special leave granted.

2. Appellant is stated to be a firm of partners carrying on business as painting contractors. The appellant was on the list of eight qualified painting-contractors on the panel prepared by the respondent-Public Sector Undertaking. Appellants name was stated to be deleted from the list of. qualified contractors on account of what is stated to be a Vigilance Report. Consequently, the respondent did not issue the tender form for the work of Anti-Corrosive Coating of the Prilling Tower of urea plant in its factory to the appellant.

3. Before its name was deleted from the list of qualified contractors, appellant was not notified of the reason for the deletion. The tender forms were issued to the remaining seven contractors, out of whom only two submitted their quotations and one of them was issued the work order on 6th January, 1993. The appellant aggrieved by the discriminatory treatment filed a writ petition in the High Court of Kerala. The petition was filed on 19th January, 1993.