JUDGMENT :

1. Leave granted.

2. The appellants/petitioners have questioned the judgment and order dated 11.7.2016 passed by the High Court of Bombay, Bench at Aurangabad and order dated 15.03.2016 of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay, Bench at Nagpur. The petitioners in the writ petition filed before the High Court i.e. W.P. No. 3359/2016 questioned the tender notice dated 08.03.2016 issued by the State of Maharashtra inviting tender for multilevel contract and for supply of ready to cook food to Anganwadi Centres as supplementary nutritional food for children, pregnant women and lactating mothers, adolescents girls under Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS Scheme). The conditions were questioned by the appellants/petitioners being arbitrary, unreasonable against the spirit of the decision of this Court in W.P. (C) No. 196/2001.

3. The question as stated in the appeal is that the local self- help groups are sought to be ousted by the money power of large corporate houses with the help of the State, the decision by this Court in PUCL vs. Union of India, W.P. (C) No. 19