IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH C.W.P.No. 10825 of 2009 Date of decision: 22.7.2009 Manmohan Sharma ......Petitioner Vs. Union of India and others ...Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE ADARSH KUMAR GOEL HON'BLE MRS.JUSTICE DAYA CHAUDHARY PRESENT: Mr.P.S.Ghuman, Advocate, for the petitioner. **** ADARSH KUMAR GOEL, J. (Oral) 1. This petition seeks a direction to fix minimum reserve price of the licence fee for the open space to be used as marriage palace in the tender conditions dated 8.7.2009. 2. The case of the petitioner is that an open space near the girls school at Jalandhar was being allowed to be used for marriage palace and its rights were given by auction for two years. The petitioner was declared successful bidder. The petitioner offered highest bid. The bid was not approved by the Cantonment Board, Jalandhar, even though reserve price was Rs.81,000/- . Later another auction was conducted in which one Vijay Babbar gave highest bid of Rs.1,52,000/-. In spite of this, fresh advertisement was given without fixing any reserve price. The action of the respondents was thus arbitrary and mala-fide. 3. Merely because the highest bid was given by any one, the C.W.P.No. 10825 of 2009 [2] authority was not bound to accept the same. It is so made clear even in the tender notice. No inference of mala fides can be drawn merely from fresh advertisement having been issued. There is also no requirement that reserve price must be fixed. 4. The petition is dismissed. (ADARSH KUMAR GOEL) JUDGE (DAYA CHAUDHARY) July 22, 2009 JUDGE raghav Note: Whether this case is to be referred to the Reporter ........Yes/No C.W.P.No. 10825 of 2009 [3] C.W.P.No. 10825 of 2009 [4]