SHIMNIT UTSCH INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED Vs. WEST BENGAL TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION LIMITED

JUDGEMENT

(1.) AT the stage of mentioning, this Court, on 16-12-2005, directed that until further orders, the contract shall not be awarded to anybody. The Division Bench, in the impugned order dated 12-12-2005 while declining to interfere with the order of the learned Single Judge in respect of the non - grant of interim relief, requested the learned Single Judge to dispose of the matter within eight weeks which means that the writ petition is likely to be disposed of some time by the middle of February 2006.

(2.) HAVING regard to the nature of controversy, we have no doubt that the learned Single Judge will be able to dispose of the writ petition within the time stipulated in the order of the Division Bench. The order that contract shall not be awarded until further orders will continue to operate till the matter is decided by the learned Single Judge. We, however, express no opinion on the merits one way or the other. The matter will be decided in accordance with law.