2023 (1) TMI 140

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....Mr. Neel Kamal Sharma, Advocate. For the Respondents: Mr. Anup Rattan, Advocate General with Mr. Shiv Pal Manhans, Additional Advocate General and Mr. Rajat Chauhan, Law Officer. Mr. Arun Sharma, S.D.M., Chamba, Mr. Rakesh Kumar, Sr. Assistant S.D.M. Office, Chamba and Mr. Vijay Sharma, Sr. Assistant, HPPWD Chamba Division, in person. Tarlok Singh Chauhan, Judge (Oral) The instant petitio....

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.... was not liable to pay amount over and above Rs.1,61,74,260/-. 4. Strong reliance in support of this submission is placed on price schedule appended with the petition as Annexure P-8 wherein the basic rate in column No.13 is reflected as Rs. 1,61,74,260/- and likewise the total amount with all taxes at column No.53 is also shown to be Rs.1,61,74,260/- only. 5. It is vehemently argued by Shri....

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....unt as also the amount along with taxes is shown to be the same. In order to check the correctness of the submission made by the petitioner, we called for the tender document that was uploaded on the website and is available there and found that only two fields of the tender document can be operated i.e. bidder's name and the basic rate in figure to be entered by the bidder in column No.13. 9. ....

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.... auto corrected. 12. There is yet another reason for not accepting the plea of the petitioner as the official-respondents along with their reply have placed the price schedule of the other Company namely "The Prince Trading Company", who too had participated and qualified the e-tendering process wherein the basic rate quoted by it was Rs.1,33,11,111/- and the same is duly reflected at Sr. Nos. ....