Guwahati Court July 2010 Judgments

M/S Mega Kleen Vs. Union of IndiA.

Court: Guwahati

1. By this common judgment and order, I propose to dispose of all these four writ petitions in as much as all these four writ petitions are in severally(sic) connected with each other and have raised substantially same questions of law and involve certain common facts. These writ petitions are, in fact, off-shoots of two previous writ petitions, namely, WP(C) 2779/2006 and 6578/2007, which involved the parties to the present proceedings. 2. In order to correctly appreciate the background in which the present writ petitions have come to be filed and call for this Court s decision, a careful analysis of the events of the past, which had given rise to the previous writ petitions, is imperative. BACKGROUND FACTS(i)Having noticed that the Railways had been adopting different terms and conditions, while giving contracts for washing of bedroll items and no standard terms and conditions of tenders had been formulated, Railway Board, constituted under the Indian Railway Board Act, 1905, issued ...