Mihan India Ltd vs GMR Airports Ltd.

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2022 Supreme(SC) 435

VINEET SARAN, J. K. MAHESHWARI
Mihan India Ltd – Appellant
Versus
GMR Airports Ltd. – Respondent

Advocates Appeared:
For the Appellant :Dushyant Dave, Rahul Bhangde, Advocate, Satyajit A. Desai, Siddharth Gautam, Neha Sangwan, Neha Sangwan, Satya Kam Sharma, Anagha S. Desai, K.M. Natraj, Nikilesh Ramachandran, Shubham Sethi, Advocates.
For the Diary No.23477/2021 : Aishwarya Bhati, Shailesh Madiyal, Vinayak Sharma, B.L.N. Shivani, Nitin Pavuluri, Manvendra Singh, Aman Sharma, Shivika Mehra, Amrish Kumar, Vaibhav Sabharwal, Neha Jain, Raj Bahadur, Shyam Divan, Sachin Patil, Rahul Chitnis, Aaditya A. Pande, Geo Joseph, Shwetal Shepal.
For the Respondent:Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Mahesh Agarwal, Milanka Chaudhury, Naina Dubey, Nishant Rao, Harshita Agarwal, Swet Shikha, E.C. Agrawala Advocates.
For the Diary No. 23479/21 :Maninder Singh, Nikilesh R., Shubham Settu, Mahesh Agarwal, Milanka Chaudhury, M.S. Ananth, Naina Dubey, Nishant Rao, Harshita Agarwal, Swet Shikha, E.C. Agrawala Advocates.
For the SLP (C) 16737/2021 & Diary No. 23477/21 :Parag P. Tripathi, Mahesh Agarwal, Milanka Chaudhury, Naina Dubey, Srinivasan, M.S. Ananth, Nishant Rao, Harshita Agarwal, Swet Shikha, E.C. Agrawala Advocates.

Table of Content
1. overview of appeals against high court judgment. (Para 2 , 3 , 4)
2. background facts regarding nagpur airport transfer and bidding process. (Para 5 , 6 , 7 , 8)
3. parties’ arguments regarding annulment and implications. (Para 10 , 11 , 12 , 13)
4. court's observations on issues arising for consideration. (Para 14 , 15 , 16)
5. court analysis on the legality of annulment and bidding process. (Para 24 , 45)
6. final ruling and conclusion of the court. (Para 52)

JUDGMENT :

2. These four appeals have been filed challenging the judgment dated 18.08.2021 of the Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court whereby the Writ Petition of the respondent No. 1- GMR Airports Limited (for short 'GAL') and GMR Nagpur International Airport Limited (for short 'GNIAL') filed against MIHAN India Limited (for short 'MIL') and Government of Maharashtra (for short 'GoM') has been allowed. The High Court set-aside the impugned communication of annulling the bidding process and directed to take further necessary steps as per prayer clause (b) of the Writ Petition.

4. Since, the order under challenge in all the appeals is the same and the facts in the said appeals are common, however Special Leave Pe

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2022 Supreme(SC) 435

VINEET SARAN, J. K. MAHESHWARIMihan India Ltd – AppellantVersusGMR Airports Ltd. – Respondent

VINEET SARAN, J. K. MAHESHWARI
Mihan India Ltd – Appellant
Versus
GMR Airports Ltd. – Respondent