(Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE I. A. ANSARI)

For settlement of mining rights of sand from river beds, in the State of Bihar, its Department of Mines and Geology, issued, on 05.12.2013, Notice Inviting Tender, which is hereinafter referred to as “NIT”.

2. The tenders, so invited, were to be submitted in two parts. While Part-A consisted of technical bid, Part-B involved financial bid. While the papers/documents/materials, which formed part of the technical bid, were required to be put inside an envelope to be marked A’, the papers/documents/materials, which formed part of the financial bid, were required to be put inside an envelope to be marked B’. Both these envelopes were required to be put inside a third envelope, which was to be marked C’.

3. Thus, both the bids, namely, technical as well as financial, were required to be kept separately in two different envelopes marked A and B respectively and while envelope, marked A, was required to contain all the papers/documents/materials relating to the technical bid, envelope, bearing the mark B, was to contain all the papers/documents/materials relating to financial bid and, then, both the envelopes, namely, A and B, were to b