1 FARAD CONTINUATION SHEET NO IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE, BENCH AT AURANGABAD. Writ Petition No.2212 Of 2010 DISTRICT: AURANGABAD Office Notes, Office Memoranda of Coram, appearances, Court’s orders or directions and Registrar’s orders. Court’s or Judge’s order Coram: A.M. Khanwilkar & S.S. Shinde, JJ. Date: 11th March 2010 ----- 1) The ground to challenge the tender document raised before us essentially is that the petitioner society have been denied opportunity to participate in the tender process on account of the qualification norms prescribed in the tender document as minimum turn over of Rs.one crore. That being the conscious decision taken by the authority before inviting tenders from prospective contractors and more so being in the nature of providing qualification, it is not open for us to interfere in the present petition. 2 2) The counsel for the petitioner did argue that the norm prescribed in the tender document is opposed to the policy of the State Government to encourage participation of the cooperative societies. That does not mean that the Court can direct the authority to change the criteria in exercise of writ jurisdiction. That would be beyond the scope of judicial review available to the Court in exercise of Article 226 of the Constitution of India. Moreover, the time and date of opening of tender document is already over when the matter was moved before us. As per tender document it is stated as 11th March 2010 at 16.00 hours while we have passed this order at 16.05 hours. 3) Understood thus, there is no merit in the petition. The petition is dismissed. (S.S. SHINDE,J.)(A.M. KHANWILKAR, J.) rsl/ wp.2212.10