JUDGMENT :

J.B. PARDIWALA, J.

1. Since the issues in all the captioned writ-applications are inter-related and the parties are also the same, those were taken up for hearing analogously and are being disposed of by this common judgment and order.

2. In the Special Civil Application No. 11391 of 2020 the writ-applicant seeks to challenge the action of the respondents in forfeiting the security deposit and also the issue of show cause notice calling upon the writ-applicant to show cause why he should not be put on holiday-mode. The writ-applicant has also prayed to restrain the respondents from encashing the bank guarantee.

3. In the Special Civil Application No. 276 of 2021 the writ-applicant seeks to challenge the order banning him for a period of two years consequent to the show cause notice referred to above and challenged in the connected writ-application.

4. In the Special Civil Application No. 13888 of 2020 the subject matter of challenge is the illegal exclusion of the writ-applicant from a tender process, wherein although the writ-applicant was adjudged to be technically competent, yet was not permitted to participate in view of the order putting the writ-applicant on a holiday-m