PATNA, India, May 8 -- Patna High Court issued the following judgment on May 5:
Heard Mr. Amit Kumar, the learned Senior Advocate for the petitioners in these set of writ petitions and Mr. Anjani Kumar, the learned AAG-4 for the State.
2. The primary grievance of the petitioners is that the eligibility/ qualification criteria in the request for proposal for supply of books in Government schools, viz., of having average turnover of Rs. 4 crores for three financial years, is arbitrary, whimsical and has the potency of excluding good publishers with sound financial health to participate in such bid.
3. We are afraid, this is not an area in which Courts could intrude. Fixation of the eligibility criteria is entirely within the purview of the...