M. R. Shah, J.

By way of this petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, the petitioner contractor has prayed for an appropriate writ, direction and order quashing and setting aside the impugned letter/communication/order dated 16.06.2016 (Annexure-A to the petition) by which the petitioner is blacklisted permanently.

2. The facts leading to the present Special Civil Application in nut-shell are as under:

[2.1] That the petitioner herein is in the business of construction as Engineers and Contractors. That the respondent University floated two tenders being (1) Tender dated 28.02.2012 in Tender Notice No.20 and (2) Tender Notice No.11. That the petitioner participated in the said tenders and was found to be successful bidder and consequently the work was awarded to the petitioner. It is the case on behalf of the petitioner that after the work orders were issued, due to defaults on the part of the respondent University and other events which were not within the control of the petitioner, the work got delayed. According to the petitioner the delay on the part of the University was brought to the notice of the respondent and the petitioner also requested t