Constitution of India — Art. 226 r/w Arts. 12 and 14 — Maintainability of writ petition: In a petition, challenging clauses of a contract entered into with public sector undertaking, mere existence of alternative remedy is not sufficient by itself, for relegating parties to civil remedy.
Held, we find that the writ petition challenging the clauses was maintainable. It is not disputed that GAIL is a Public Sector Undertaking and thus qualifies under the definition of ‘State’…