SHREE PACETRONIX LTD. Vs. STATE OF WEST BENGAL

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This is a writ by an enterprise which claims to have been the sole supplier of cardiac pacemakers and Indo-Cardial electrodes to the Government of West Bengal for several years from 2004 to 2016. They are not just suppliers. They manufacture these devices. Their manufacturing unit is in Pithampur, District-Dhar in Madhya Pradesh. They claim that their price is the lowest in India. They are the only organisation manufacturing these devices in this country.

(2.) They say that they also supply these items to the Central Government departments including South Eastern and Eastern railways. Their price is about Rs. 29,000.00 for a pacemaker which is about Rs. 15,000.00 lower than the imported one of the same specification.

(3.) It was submitted at the bar that till 2016 the writ petitioner was supplying the above items to the Government of West Bengal on private treaty, and not through any tender process.