Hilltop- Bkb (Jv) through Its Partner Alok Kumar Agarwal v. Coal India Limited through Its Chairman
Case brief
What is this about?
High Court of Jharkhand, W.P.(C) No. 1005 of 2024, disposed without entering merits on 11.3.2024. Petitioner: Hilltop-BKB (JV), partnership firm formerly a joint venture until 2014. Technical bid rejected because experience certificate for M/s BCCL work named the joint venture. Court observed that future bids before Coal India Limited and its subsidiaries shall not be prejudiced and that authorities shall verify and consider the joint-vent-to-partnership-firm transformation of the identically named entity. Pending I.A. disposed. Respondents: Coal India Limited, Central Coalfields Limited, GM (Contract Management Cell) CCL. No statutes or precedents cited.
What did the court decide?
Writ disposed of without adjudication of merits; court's observation that in all future bids by the petitioner in Coal India Limited and its subsidiaries the concerned authorities shall verify and take into consideration that the original joint venture (existing till 2014) has been transformed into a partnership firm of the same name; pending I.A. also disposed of.