JUDGMENT :

(Prayer: Second Appeal is filed under Section 100 of C.P.C, against the Order dated 31.01.2006 passed in A.S.No.216 of 2003 by the I Additional District Court, Coimbatore, confirming the judgment and decree dated 04.09.2003 passed in O.S.No.1264 of 1996 by the III Additional District Munsif Court, Coimbatore.)

(Heard through video conferencing)

1. This Second Appeal has been directed against the judgment and order of the I Additional District Court, Coimbatore, dated 31.01.2006 passed in A.S.No. 216 of 2003.

2. The appellant herein is the plaintiff and the respondents herein are the defendants in suit. For the sake of convenience the appellant is referred as the plaintiff and the respondents are referred as the defendants 1 & 2 during the course of this discussion.

3. The averments of the parties in brief:

The plaintiff was a contractor registered with TWAD Board under unemployed Engineers Scheme. In response to the tender dated 11.11.1987 called by the defendants Department for the erection of certain structures for supplying drinking water within the Coimbatore Corporati