Andhra Pradesh Court May 2002 Judgments
Government of A.P. and anr. Vs. Sri Venkateswara Construction Co., Kak ...
Court: Andhra Pradesh
Decided on: May-16-2002
Reported in: 2002(5)ALD142
G. Bikshapathy, J.1. The OP is filed under Sections 14(1), 30 and 33 of Arbitration Act, 1940 to direct the learned arbitrator to file the award in to Court and also to set aside the award of the arbitrator dated 30-11-1997 and dated 22-1-1998.2. Important questions on the interpretation of clauses 73 and 59 of the Preliminary Specifications to A.P. Detailed Standard Specifications (for brief 'APDSS') and the jurisdiction of arbitrator arise for consideration.3. The petitioner is the Government and it is referred to herein as department for the sake of convenience and the respondent No. 1 is referred to as the contractor and respondent No.2 is referred to as the learned arbitrator.4. The events leading to the filing of the OP are that a sum of over Rs. 99 lakhs were sanctioned for construction of road over-bridge in K.M.1/6 of Gudivada-Kankipadu, Gudivada Mandal, Krishna District. Accordingly, tenders were called for. The claimant-contractor quoted the lowest rates and the same were ap...
Tag this Judgment!Labour Contract Society Vs. Jangaon Municipal Sanitary Works and Labou ...
Court: Andhra Pradesh
Decided on: May-14-2002
Reported in: 2002(4)ALT344
ORDERD.S.R. Varma, J.1. The appellant herein is the 2nd respondent in the writ petition. The appeal is filed against the orders passed by the learned Single Judge of this Court in W.P.No. 877 of 2002, dated 16-4-2002 declaring the acceptance of the tender of the 2nd respondent by the 1st respondent for sanitation work in Janagaon Municipality as illegal.2. Rule 5(2) of the A.P. Municipalities Tender Rules, 1967 contemplates that tenders from the registered contractors only shall be considered.3. The learned Counsel for the appellant Sri Ramamohan Reddy submits that the appellant is a registered contractor, registered with the State Government.4. A fair reading of Rule 5(2) of the Rules reveals that the Contractor shall be registered with the Municipality. Therefore, in view of the explicit language incorporated in Rule 5(2) of the Rules, we are of the view that the learned Single Judge is right in dismissing the contract which was granted in favour of the appellant.5. It was brought to...
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