{"id":578070,"date":"2023-05-20T11:15:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T05:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=578070"},"modified":"2023-05-20T12:04:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T06:34:32","slug":"supreme-court-backs-best-call-to-disqualify-tata-motors-from-electric-bus-tender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/supreme-court-backs-best-call-to-disqualify-tata-motors-from-electric-bus-tender\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court backs BEST call to disqualify Tata Motors from electric bus tender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on on Friday upheld the decision of Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) to disqualify Tata Motors from its tender for supply of 1,400 single-deck electric buses worth about \u20b92,500 crore.<\/p>\n<p>While dismissing Tata Motors&#8217; plea, a bench of the top court led by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud also partly set aside the Bombay High Court judgment that had directed BEST to issue a fresh tender for electric buses.<\/p>\n<p>While the high court had upheld Tata Motors&#8217; disqualification, it had also termed BEST&#8217;s decision to hold Hyderabad-based EVEY Trans Pvt Ltd&#8217;s &#8216;responsive&#8217; bid as &#8220;incorrect&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on on Friday upheld the decision of Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) to disqualify Tata Motors from its tender for supply of 1,400 single-deck electric buses worth about \u20b92,500 crore. While dismissing Tata Motors&#8217; plea, a bench of the top court led by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud also partly set aside the Bombay High Court judgment that had directed BEST to issue a fresh tender for electric buses. While the high court had upheld Tata Motors&#8217; disqualification, it had also termed BEST&#8217;s decision to hold Hyderabad-based EVEY Trans Pvt Ltd&#8217;s &#8216;responsive&#8217; bid as &#8220;incorrect&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}