The first petitioner and the third respondent vied with each other to get at the contract to provide ground handling services in the first respondent Airport which is nearing completion. The third respondent was awarded the contract by the first respondent. The challenge in this Original Petition is against the above award of contract to the third respondent. According to the petitioners, the first petitioner (hereinafter referred to as 'the Company') has been operating at the Mumbai and Delhi Airports for more than three decades in the field of ground handling services to various Airlines including the third respondent. The first respondent as per Exhibit P-1 informed the Company that it was setting up an International Airport at Cochin and requested to submit a detailed proposal with regard to the entrusting of ground handling services at the Airport if the Company was interfered in the same. The Company as per Exhibit P 2 informed the first respondent that it was interested in the above proposal. Thereafter the representatives of the Company had detailed discussion with respondents 1 and 2. The Company submitted its detailed proposal in Exhibit P 3. The salient features