IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA CONSTITUTIONAL WRIT JURISDICTION APPELLATE SIDE Before:

The Hon’ble Justice Om Narayan Rai WPA 10536 of 2025 M/s IDL Explosives Limited & Ors.

-vs.-

Coal India Limited & Anr.

For the Petitioner : Mr. S.N. Mookherji, Sr. Adv.

Mr. V. Gupta, Adv.

Mr. Neelesh Choudhury, Adv.

Mr. A. Poddar, Adv. Mr. P. Barua, Adv.

For the Respondent : Mr. Jishnu Saha, Sr. Adv.

Mr. Ayan Poddar, Adv. Mr. Soham Dutta, Adv. Ms. Khusboo Ruia, Adv.

Hearing Concluded on : 08.08.2025 Judgment on : 13.08.2025 Om Narayan Rai, J.:-

1. The petitioners, three in number, are aggrieved by the debarment of the petitioner no. 1 from contracting with Coal India Limited and its subsidiaries. The petitioners’ request to the respondents to review the two years’ ban imposed on the petitioner no. 1 has been spurned by an order dated May 02, 2025 passed by the Chairman, Coal India Limited and hence the writ petition.

FACTS:

2. Shorn of minute details, the salient facts of the case, as may be gathered from the pleadings of the parties (i.e. the writ petition filed by the petitioner and the affidavit-in-opposition filed on behalf of the respondent), are as follows:-

a) On July 23, 2021 a “Notice Inviting Tender c