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24.12.2025

Court No.25

D/L No.7

S. Gayen

IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA

CONSTITUTIONAL WRIT JURISDICTION

APPELLATE SIDE

WPA 29311 of 2025

M/s Amit Mines Private Limited

Versus

Steel Authority of India Limited & Ors.

Mr. Srijib Chakraborty

Mr. Aditya Mondal

Ms. Rupsa Sremani

…for the Petitioner

Mr. Arijit Basu

Mr. Kaustav Banerjee

Mr. Ria Kundu

…for the State

1. This is the third round of litigation. The respondent

authorities have issued the show cause notice to the

petitioner on 15^th June, 2024. Being aggrieved with

the said notice, the petitioner has filed the present writ

application before this Court and this Court has

passed an interim order on 9th July, 2024 holding that

the petitioner need not reply to the show cause notice

till the next date of hearing. On 24^th July, 2024 the

said interim order was extended and on 19^th

December, 2025 the interim order was further

extended till 25th February, 2026. Now the

respondents have issued a tender for digging

evacuation of slag/scrap/muck/debris from slag pits

and various bays of SMS, transportation of slag, muck,

debris, to material recovery plant and segregation and

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processing of scrap to chargeable size and transport to

magnetic yards of SMS. The petitioner has

participated in the said tender but the tender

document has not been accepted on the ground that

the registered vendor code No. V1000076497 is

blocked. When the petitoner came to know, the

petitioner has made a detailed representation to the

respondent authorities on 21^st November, 2025. In

spite of receipt of the said representation, the

authorities have not considered the same and

continuing with the tender process.

2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that if the

respondents are allowed to continue with the tender

process without allowing the petitioner to participate in

the said tender and if the writ petition filed by the

petitioner is allowed, the petitioner will be badly

prejudiced.

3. Per contra, learned counsel appearing for the

respondent authorities submits that a show cause

notice has been issued to the petitioner and

investigation is also conducted and this Court though

has directed the petitioner not to submit the reply to

the show cause notice, simultaneously the authorities

are allowed to continue the investigation against the

petitioner. He further submits that the continuation of

the investigation against the petitioner, the authorities

have blocked the registered vendor code of the

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petitioner. He further submits that the tender process

is continuing and at this stage if this Court will pass

an order of injunction, the authorities will suffer

irreparable loss and injury. He submits that the

authorities have extended the last date of tender twice

but in the mean time the petitioner has not taken any

steps and the petitioner has filed the present writ

application only on the last date of tender with the

intention to stop the tender process.

4. Heard the learned counsel for the respective parties

and perused the materials on record. This Court finds

that the authorities have issued show cause notice

upon the petitioner and the petitioner has challenged

the show cause notice. This Court passed an order

directing the petitioner not to reply the show cause

notice till the next date of hearing. The interim order is

extended from time to time but the investigation is

continuing. Now the learned counsel for the

respondents submits that the investigation has been

completed but in terms of the order passed by this

Court, the investigation report could not be supplied to

the petitioner.

5. This Court passed an interim order. The earlier action

taken by the respondents have been set aside by this

Court except investigation. If earlier action of the

respondents have been set aside, how the respondents

can block the vendor code of the petitioner.

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6. Considering the above, this Court finds that the writ

petition is to be decided as expeditiously as possible on

exchange of affidavits by the parties. Accordingly, the

respondents are directed to file affid