1. Steel Authority of India Ltd., through its Chairman, New Delhi 2. The Chief Executive Officer, Steel Authority of India Ltd., Bokaro Steel Plant, Bokaro 3. The Executive Director (MM), Steel Authority of India Ltd., Bokaro Steel Plant, Bokaro 4. The General Manager (MM), Steel Authority of India Ltd., Bokaro Steel Plant, Bokaro 5. The Deputy Manager (Purchase), Steel Authority of India Ltd., Bokaro Steel Plant, Bokaro ..... Respondents CORAM HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJESH SHANKAR For the Petitioner: Mr. Deepak Sinha For the Respondents: Mr. Vijay Kant Dubey 03/03.02.2020 Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that since the present writ petition was filed on 25.06.2019, the petitioner confines its prayers made in the present writ petition only to the extent of the prayer Nos. 1(d) and 1(e). In the present writ petition, the petitioner has made prayer No. 1(d) for a declaration that the eligibility criteria as contained in Clause1.2(A) of BI No. P56/445/7000010577 dated 04.02.2019 (Anneuxre12 to the writ petition) providing that the tenderers who have supplied the items (cooling plates) to the blast furnaces of any of the integrated steel plants (Govt. Organization/PSU/Public Limited Co./Joint Venture Co. where at least one partner is Govt. Organization or PSU) during the last 7 years will stand eligible for the said tender, is not applicable so far as the petitioner is concerned and the said requirement has been put only to debar the petitioner from participating in the same, who has successfully supplied the said items to the respondentSteel Authority of India Limited (SAIL), Bokaro Steel Plant in pursuance of tenders floated in the year 1992, 1993, 2003 & 2009 and due to unnecessary dispute raised by the respondentSAIL, Bokaro Steel Plant in the year 2013 with regard to alleged recovery from the petitioner, leading to nonparticipation of the petitioner in the tenders floated for similar items in the year 201314 and in the year 2015, which was finally settled on 20.05.2015 by the respondentSAIL, Bokaro Steel Plant. 2 Further, prayer No. 1(e) has been made for a declaration that the petitioner is duly registered with the respondentSAIL/Bokaro Steel Plant for supply of cooling plates to it for which it was issued the Vendor Registration Certificates by the respondentSAIL/Bokaro Steel Plant initially in 1992, the validity of which was subsequently extended in 1997, 2002, 2007, 2011 and lastly in 2018 having its validity till 2023 and on the basis of those registration certificates, the petitioner had successfully supplied the said items i.e. cooling plates to the respondentSAIL/ Bokaro Steel Plant in pursuance of the tenders floated in the year 1992, 1993, 2003 & 2009 and therefore now at this stage, the petitioner cannot be debarred on the ground that the petitioner is not registered with the respondentSAIL/Bokaro Steel Plant for those items i.e. cooling plates. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a Small Scale Industries (SSI) unit which manufactures cold formed Architectural Profile and C.I. Foundry. It is also registered with the Steel Authority of India Ltd. Earlier, the petitioner had moved this Court on the present issue by preferring W.P.(C) No. 5846/2018 particularly questioning the eligibility conditions mentioned in the tender being BI No. P56/445/7000009999 floated by the respondent authorities on 18.09.2018 to the extent that the bidders must have performed similar nature of work for the last 7 years. The said condition was put only to deprive it from participating in the tender. A Bench of