( 1 ) AS these cases aye intimately connected and raise common questions of law, they can conveniently be disposed of by a common order. 1, therefore, propose to dispose of them by a common order.

( 2 ) A wholly owned Karnataka Government Company called the Karnataka State Agro Corn products Limited, Bangalore-respondent No. 1 which itself is a subsidiary of another wholly owned Karnataka Government company called Karnataka Agro Industries Corporation Limited (hereinafter referred to as the Corporation) is inter alia engaged in the manufacture of energy food, for the manufacture of which, it inter alia buys a pulse called 'bangal gram'. In tender notification No. KSCP/pdef/45/83-84 dt.- 12-5-1983 (Annexure-A) the Executive Director of respondent No. 1 called for tenders from intending suppliers for the supply of 650 metric tons of bengal gram on the terms and conditions stipulated in that notification. The last day and time for receipt of tenders was 1 p. m. on 4-6-1983 and the time for opening of tenders was notified as 4-30 p. m. on the same day, in response to the said tender notification the petitioner in Writ petition No. 12006 of 1983 and another wholly owned Government comp

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