Union of India Vs Bharat Forge
Date: August 16, 2022
Court: Supreme Court
Type: Special Leave Petition
Judge(s)/Member(s): K.M. Joseph and Hrishikesh Roy
Subject Matter
No public duty on the State to indicate HSN Code in public tender documents.
Summary
Bharat Forge submitted bids for a tender floated for Diesel Locomotive Work. The company argued that since the HSN for GST rate was not mentioned in the tender document, it wrongly added 18% GST in its bid, and lost out to other bidders who included…
1. Leave granted. 2. By the impugned Judgment, High Court has disposed of the Writ Petition filed by the first respondent (hereinafter referred to as the “Writ Petitioner”) with the following directions: “We, therefore, find it expedient to Issue a direction to respondent no.2 namely, the General Manager, Diesel Locomotive Works, Varanasi that if the GST value is to be added in t…