The process for settlement of Berbhangi Chora Fishery, amongst others, was initiated by the Manging Director of Assam Fishery Develoment Corporation Ltd. (in short the Corporation) by issuing the Notice Inviting Tender (in short NIT) dated 06.04.2010 fix­ing 22.4.2010 as the last date of submission of tender with certain conditions stipulated in the tender notice, amongst others, requiring the tenderers to deposit 15% of the minimum value fixed by the Corporation for the first year as earnest money and also submission of tenders in the prescribed form, to be ob­tained from the Corporation's office, wherein certain information including the information relating to the name of the bank, call deposit number and date of the call deposit submit­ted towards the earnest money deposit were required to be furnished. The petitioner, the respondent No.3 and 6 (six) others submit­ted their tenders quoting different amount. While the petitioner offered Rs. 1,71,7777-per year, the respondent No. 3 offered Rs. 1,65,000/- per year. The other tenderers of­fered the amount, which are less than the of­fers of the petitioner and the respondent No.3. The petitioner made the earnest mo