Tata Motors Limited vs Brihan Mumbai Electric Supply & Transport Undertaking (Best)

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2023 Supreme(SC) 547

D. Y. CHANDRACHUD, PAMIDIGHANTAM SRI NARASIMHA, J. B. PARDIWALA
Tata Motors Limited – Appellant
Versus
Brihan Mumbai Electric Supply & Transport Undertaking (Best) – Respondent

Advocates appeared:
For Petitioner(s) Ms. Nandini Gore, Adv. Ms. Aditi Bhatt, Adv. Mr. Sarthak Gaur, Adv. Mr. Yash Dubey, Adv. Ms. Manvi Rastogi, Adv. For M/s.Karanjawala & Co., AOR Mr. Abhinav Mukerji, AOR Mr. Akshay C. Shrivastava, Adv. Mrs. Bihu Sharma, Adv. Ms. Pratishtha Vij, Adv. Mr. Anjandas Gupta, Adv. Ms. Rimali Batra, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Lalwani, Adv. For M/s.D.S.K. Legal, AOR
For the Respondent(s): Mr. Anjandas Gupta, Adv. Ms. Rimali Batra, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Lalwani, Adv. For M/s.D.S.K. Legal, AOR Ms. Nandini Gore, Adv. Ms. Aditi Bhatt, Adv. Mr. Sarthak Gaur, Adv. Mr. Yash Dubey, Adv. Ms. Manvi Rastogi, Adv. For M/s. Karanjawala & Co., AOR Mr. Abhinav Mukerji, AOR Mr. Akshay C. Shrivastava, Adv. Mrs. Bihu Sharma, Adv. Ms. Pratishtha Vij, Adv. Mr. Anshul Rai, Adv. Mr. Sameer Rohatgi, Adv.

JUDGMENT :

J. B. PARDIWALA, J.

1. Leave granted.

2. As the issues raised in all the captioned appeals are common and the challenge is also to the self-same order passed by the High Court of Judicature at Bombay dated 05.07.2022 in the Writ Petition (L) No. 15548 of 2022, those were taken up for hearing analogously and are being disposed of by this common judgment and order.

3. The Appeal arising out of SLP(C) No. 15708 of 2022 is at the instance of TATA Motors Limited (for short, “TATA Motors”) (Original Writ Petitioner before the High Court).

4. The Appeal arising out of SLP(C) No. 11871 of 2022 is at the instance of EVEY Trans Pvt. Ltd. (for short, “EVEY”) (Original respondent No. 2 before the High Court).

5. The Appeal arising out of SLP(C) No. 11933 of 2022 is at the instance of the Brihan Mumbai Electric Supply & Transport Undertaking (for short, “BEST”) (Original respondent No. 1 before the High Court), a statutory corporation operating under the provisions of the Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act, 1888.

FACTUAL MATRIX

6. BEST floated a tender bearing No. DMM(T-II)/08/TCU/73169/20

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2023 Supreme(SC) 547

D. Y. CHANDRACHUD, PAMIDIGHANTAM SRI NARASIMHA, J. B. PARDIWALATata Motors Limited – AppellantVersusBrihan Mumbai Electric Supply & Transport Undertaking (Best) – Respondent

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D. Y. CHANDRACHUD, PAMIDIGHANTAM SRI NARASIMHA, J. B. PARDIWALA
Tata Motors Limited – Appellant
Versus
Brihan Mumbai Electric Supply & Transport Undertaking (Best) – Respondent