Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 607 · Decided 6 July 2023
The Madras Aluminium CO. LTD. v. The Tamil Nadu Electricity Board and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 607 · [2023] 10 S.C.R. 742
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 7224/2009
- Decided
- 6 July 2023
- Bench
- BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI, SANJAY KAROL, ARAVIND KUMAR (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14; Companies Act Section 3(1)(O)
Headnote
Contract - State, a party to the contract must abide by Article 14 - Reasonable period to consider an application - Application made by the appellant for reduction to 10000 Kilovolt-Ampere (KVA) - No steps effectuating such repeated follow ups by the appellant - Action of the respondents in taking considerable time from when the said application was made, to when the revised agreement was entered into, if arbitrary and unreasonable - Held: Yes - State action irrespective of being in the
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