Maninderjit Singh Bitta vs Union of India

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2011 Supreme(SC) 383

S. H. KAPADIA, K. S. P. RADHAKRISHNAN, SWATANTER KUMAR
Maninderjit Singh Bitta – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent

Advocates Appeared:
Mr. R.F. Nariman, Senior Advocate, Mr. S. Hari Haran, Mr. Pradhuman Gohil, Mr. Vikas Singh, Ms. Taruna Singh, Ms. Charu Mathur, Advocates, with him for the Petitioner(s).
Mr. A. Mariarputham, Advocate General, Mr. T.S. Doabia, Senior Advocate, Ms. Jayshree Anand, Mr. Manjit Singh, Dr. Manish Singhvi, Mr. V. Madhukar, AAG, Mr. S.W.A. Qadri, Ms. Sunita Sharma, Mr. C.K. Sharma, Ms. Gunwant Dara, Mr. B. Krishna Prasad, Mr. D.S. Mahra, Ms. Anil Katiyar, Ms. Aruna Mathur, Mr. Yusuf Khan, Mr. Avneesh Arputham, Ms. Megha Gaur (for M/s. Arputham, Aruna & Co.), Ms. Hemantika Wahi, Ms. Nupur Kanungo, Mr. V.G. Pragasam, Mr. S.J. Aristotle, Mr. Prabu Ramasubramanian, Mr. Krishnanand Pandeya, Mr. Sanjay R. Hegde, Mr. Abhishek Malviya, Mr. Radha Shyam Jena, Mr. Aruneshwar Gupta, Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, Mr. S. Bhowmick, Mr. S.C. Ghosh, Mr. Naveen Sharma, Mr. B.S. Banthia, Mr. Avijit Bhattacharjee, Ms. Sarbani Kar, Ms. Debjani Das Purkayastha, Mr. Bidyabrata Acharya, Mr. K.N. Madhusoodhanan, Mr. R. Sathish, Mr. Gopal Singh, Mr. Manish Kumar, Mr. Chandan Kumar, Mr. Rituraj Biswas, Mr. Atul Jha, Mr. Rajesh Srivastava, Mr. Ramesh Babu M.R., Ms. D. Bharathi Reddy, Ms. Kamini Jaiswal, Mr. Arun K. Sinha, Mr. Atul Jha, Mr. D.K. Sinha, Ms. Ekta Singh, Mr. Kuldip Singh, Mr. Vikas Mehta, Mr. T.V. George, Ms. A. Subhashini, Mr. Khwairakpam Nobin Singh, Mr. Sapam Biswajit Meitei, Mr. Ratan Kumar Choudhuri, Ms. Vartika Sahay (for M/s. Corporate Law Group), Mr. Jatinder Kumar Bhatia, Mr. Balaji Srinivasan, Mr. Anil Shrivastav, Mr. Rituraj Biswas, Mr. Naresh K. Sharma, Mr. G. Prakash, Ms. Beena Prakash, Mr. V. Senthil, Ms. Vivekta Singh, Mr. Kamal Mohan Gupta, Mr. Edward Belho, Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, Ms. Vijaya, Mr. Balaji Srinivasan, Mr. Sanjay Kharde, Ms. Asha G. Nair, Mr. Devesh Kumar Devesh, Mr. Milind Kumar, Mr. T. Harish Kumar, Mr. P. Prasanth, Mr. V. Pattabhiram, Mr. G.N. Reddy, Ms. Jayshree Anand, Mr. K.K. Mahalik, Mr. Ajay Pal, Advocates, with them for the Respondent(s).

ORDER

1. Government of India, on 28th March, 2001, issued a notification under the provisions of Section 41(6) of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (for short, `the Act') read with Rule 50 of the Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989 (for short, `the Rules') for implementation of the provisions of the Act. This notification sought to introduce a new scheme regulating issuance and fixation of number plates. In terms of sub-section (3) of Section 109 of the Act, the Central Government issued an order dated 22nd August, 2001 which dealt with various facets of manufacture, supply and fixation of new High Security Registration Plates (HSRP). The Central Government also issued a notification dated 16th October, 2001 for further implementation of the said order and the scheme. Various States had invited tenders in order to implement the scheme.

2. A writ petition being Writ Petition (C) No.41 of 2003 was filed in this Court challenging the Central Government's power to issue such notification as well as terms and conditions of the tender process. In addition to the above writ petition before this Court, various other writ petitions were filed in different High Courts raising the same challenge. These writ

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2011 Supreme(SC) 383

S. H. KAPADIA, K. S. P. RADHAKRISHNAN, SWATANTER KUMARManinderjit Singh Bitta – AppellantVersusUnion of India – Respondent

Cases Referred (3)

S. H. KAPADIA, K. S. P. RADHAKRISHNAN, SWATANTER KUMAR
Maninderjit Singh Bitta – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent