CWP No.8347 of 2011 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition.No.8347 of 2011 Date of decision: 11.5.2011 New Samra Agro Storage Co-owners, Faridkot ...Petitioner Versus Food Corporation of India and others ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE ADARSH KUMAR GOEL ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE AJAY KUMAR MITTAL 1. Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2. Whether to be referred to the reporters or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the Digest? Present: Mr. Tejender K. Joshi, Advocate for the petitioner. Adarsh Kumar Goel, ACJ. This petition seeks quashing of allotment of tender to respondent No.3 for construction of godowns for the FCI. Case of the petitioner is that in pursuance of tender notice issued for the year 2010 for construction of godowns, the petitioner gave its bid. One of the eligibility conditions was that the land on which godowns are to be constructed should be within the radius of 8 kms. from the Railway Goods Shed. The petitioner’s land was situated within the said distance while the land of respondent No.3 was 8.5 kms. away. In view of this fact, respondent No.3 was not eligible. Still, work has been allotted to respondent No.3. The petitioner made a representation dated 14.3.2011, 1 CWP No.8347 of 2011 Annexure P.4 to respondent No.2, who is the concerned authority but no decision was being taken thereon. Without expressing any opinion on merits, we direct respondent No.2 to take a decision on the representation of the petitioner in accordance with law within one month from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. The petition is disposed of. (Adarsh Kumar Goel) Acting Chief Justice May 11, 2011 (Ajay Kumar Mittal) ‘gs’ Judge 2