RAJOWAL COOPERATIVE LABOUR & CONSTRUCTION SOCIETY LTD AND OTHERS Vs. MUNICIPAL CORPORATION, LUDHIANA AND OTHERS

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The three petitioners are Labour and Construction Societies. They are primary societies and are members of the District Cooperative Labour & Construction Unions which in turn are the members of the Punjab State Federation of Cooperative Labour & Construction Union Ltd. Chandigarh. Respondent No.2 is the Superintending Engineer (B&R), Municipal Corporation of respondent No.1-Municipal Corporation, Ludhiana. The others are the private respondents.

(2.) The petitioners seek a writ of certiorari to quash the clubbing of various items of works and a writ of mandamus directing the official respondents to call the tenders without clubbing the works so as to increase the amount of tender over Rs. 40 lacs.

(3.) The State of Punjab issued a notification dated 02.10.2014, clause-1 whereof reads as under:-