ORDER :

Jagdish Singh Khehar, CJI.

Civil Appeal No.5332 of 2017 (Special Leave Petition (Civil)No.12338... CC No. 6737 of 2017)

Delay of 61 days in filing SLP (C)12338.... CC no. 6737 of 2017 is condoned.

2. Leave granted.

3. The appellant - Haryana State Cooperative Labour and Construction Federation Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as, the Haryana Federation), was engaged in the execution of Government works. In turn, the Haryana Federation got the Government works, assigned to it, executed from different labour cooperative societies, by effecting individual contractual agreements, with the societies.

4. In 1981, the Haryana Federation was assigned the work of construction of low income group houses (numbering 58, 76 and 82), in Sector 15, Panchkula, Haryana, by the Haryana Housing Board. The Haryana Federation, entered into three separate construction contracts, for the execution of the above works, with respondent no. 1 - Unique Cooperative Labour and Construction Cooperative Society Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as, the Construction Society), on 20.7.1981.

5. By a different contractual agreement dated 2.11.1981, the Haryana Federation also allotted construction work of a sports complex