New Delhi: Anil Ambani owned Reliance Airport Developers today moved to the Supreme Court, challenging the Delhi High court verdict. Supreme Court’s verdict upheld the Government’s decision to allot Delhi and Mumbai airports' modernization work to rival bidders -- GMR and GVK led consortia.
A Special Leave Petition (SLP) has been filed against the April 21 verdict of the High Court holding that the government's action was in no way "discriminatory, illogical or illegal".
The High Court at the request of the Reliance counsel has said that the two consortia would not claim any equity or execute the contract during the next two weeks. This will enable the petitioner file an appeal in the apex court.
While upholding the technical parameters adopted in awarding the contracts, the High Court had said the Government and the Airport Authority of India (AAI) had Absolute discretion to vary the tender requirements or amend the term of Request for Proposal (RFP) as per the requirements of the project.
Reliance had challenged the award of the contracts to the GMR-Fraport consortium and GVK Industries for the Delhi and Mumbai airports on the ground that the Government and the AAI had deliberately amended the tender norms to favour the rival bidders.
Reliance argued that as the original highest financial bidder for the Delhi Airport and being the highest technical bidder for the Mumbai Airport, the company should have been awarded at least one of the projects.
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