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2025:CGHC:59345-DB NAFR HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR WPC No. 1078 of 2020 M/s Techno Prints Through Its Proprietor M/s Techno Prints Office At Behind Banjari Mata Mandir Near Heera Steel Rawabhata Industrial Area Raipur Chhattisgarh, District : Raipur, Chhattisgarh ---- Petitioner Versus

1 - Chhattisgarh Textbook Corporation Through Its Managing Director Chhattisgarh Textbook Corporation, Premises of Chattisgarh Board of Secondary Education Pensionbada Raipur Chhattisgarh, District : Raipur, Chhattisgarh

2 - General Manager Chhattisgarh Textbook Corporation, Premises of Chattisgarh Board of Secondary Education Pensionbada Raipur Chhattisgarh, District : Raipur, Chhattisgarh ---- Respondents (Cause title is taken from CIS Software)

For Petitioner : Mr. Himanshu Sinha, Advocate.

For Respondents : Mr. Arijit Tiwari, Advocate.

Hon'ble Shri Ramesh Sinha, Chief Justice Hon’ble Smt. Rajani Dubey, Judge

Order on Board

Per Rajani Dubey , Judge

05.12.2025

1. Heard Mr. Himanshu Sinha, learned counsel for the petitioner. Also heard Mr. Arijit Tiwari, learned counsel appearing for the respondents.

2. By this petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, the petitioner seeks for the following relief(s):

A. That this Hon'ble Court may kindly be pleased to issue an appropriate writ/order/direction thereby directing the respondents to produce the entire records before the Hon'ble Court.

B. That this Hon'ble Court may kindly be please to issue a writ in the nature of mandamus thereby quashing the impugned order No. 300/TBC/Misc.Printing/75/2020 dated 18.03.2020 (Annexure P/1) and order No. 4833/TBC/Misc.Printing/179/2020 dated 13.03.2020 (Annexure P/2).

C. Any other relief which this Hon'ble Court deems fit and proper may be passed.

3. The facts as projected by the petitioner are that the petitioner firm is a proprietorship firm engaged in printing and publishing business. The petitioner firm is one out of the 30 firms/companies registered with the Chhattisgarh Textbook Corporation for printing works. The respondent Chhattisgarh Textbook Corporation is a body registered under the provisions of the Societies Registration Act, 1973 and has its own by laws and rules. Copy of the registration certificate is Annexure P/3. The scheme of the act 1973 and provisions therein clearly provide that a society registered under the provisions of the Societies Registration Act, 1973 is a body corporate and the state government has no role in the functioning of society and is not the department of the government.

The Textbook Corporation invites Tender for distribution and supply of free of cost textbooks to the pupils of all the government schools of the Chhattisgarh on yearly basis and as far as the other Educational materials for various state instrumentalities such as Rajeev Gandhi Shiksha Mission, Samagra Shiksha Mission, State Council for Educational Research and Training (SCERT) and other Educational institutions are concerned item rate Tenders are invited for period of three years. As per the item rate contract/Tender various printing firms/companies registered with the Textbook Corporation are declared successful (L-1) as per the specifications and parameters of the printing work. The Chhattisgarh Textbook Corporation issued notice for printing and distributions of miscellaneous materials in the year 2013- 14 and the successful bidders were continuously given the printing work as and when required by the respondent corporation. In the subsequent meetings of the Executive Board of the Chhattisgarh Textbook Corporation it was resolved that the successful bidders of the Tender held earlier would be given the orders for printing and distribution at the rates finalized for the session 2013-14 and it was further resolved that fresh Tenders for item rate contract with respect to miscellaneous printing would be finalized very soon. Subsequently, in the 54^th and 55^th meeting of the Executive Board of the Chhattisgarh Textbo