CAV JUDGMENT

(Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RAJEEV RANJAN PRASAD)

Date : 10-12-2025

Heard Mr. Satyabir Bharti, learned Senior Counsel assisted by Ms. Kanupriya, learned counsel for the petitioner(s), Mr. P.K. Shahi, learned Senior Advocate assisted by Mr. Vikash Kumar, learned counsel for the Bihar State Beverage Corporation Limited and Mr. Anuj Kumar, learned AC to GP-24 for the State of Bihar.

2. Since both the writ applications involve common questions for consideration, on the request of learned counsel for the parties, these matters have been heard together and are being disposed of by this common judgment.

3. For sake of clarity, we will briefly take note of the facts of the two writ applications separately hereinafter.

CWJC No. 10011 of 2024

4. In this writ application, the petitioner is a Public Limited Company engaged in manufacturing and supply of country liquor in Polyethylene Terephthalate (in short ‘PET’) bottles. It is the case of the petitioner that the Government of Bihar came with a policy decision whereunder tenders were invited from the eligible person/partnership firms/companies in terms of tender notice dated 31.01.2014 published in the Bihar Gazette (Extraordinary) (An