Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 23 · Decided 8 January 2024

Jaipur Vidyut Vitran Nigam LTD. & ORS. v. MB Power (Madhya Pradesh) Limited & ORS.

Court
Supreme Court of India
Citation
2024 INSC 23 · [2024] 1 S.C.R. 909
Case number
CIVIL APPEAL No. 6503/2022
Decided
8 January 2024
Bench
BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI, PRASHANT KUMAR MISHRA (2-judge bench)
Outcome
Appeal(s) allowed
Case type
Civil
Acts & sections cited
Electricity Act Section 63, 86

Headnote

State Commission held that the tariffs offered by the L-4 and L-5 bidders were not aligned to the prevailing market prices. In appeal by L-5, APTEL held that the State Commission had to necessarily adopt the tariff and had no power the tariff was aligned to market prices. Impugned judgment of the High Court relying on the said judgment of the APTEL and the earlier orders of this Court concluded that applying the test of "filling the bucket", the procurers were bound to take supply from the respondent No.1 at the

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