M/S SAPNA CATERING vs UNION OF INDIA & ORS.

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$~21 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of Decision: 26th November, 2025 + W.P.(C) 17183/2025, CM APPL. 70648/2025 & CM APPL. 70649/2025 M/S SAPNA CATERING .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Tamim Qadri, Mr. Anubhav Bhasin and Mr. Saeed Quadri, Advocates Mob: 9899959499 Email: [email protected] versus UNION OF INDIA & ORS. .....Respondents Through: Ms. Avshreya Pratap Singh Rudy, CGSC with Ms. Usha Jamnal, Mr. Mohammad Junaid Mahmood and Ms. Prajna Pandita, Advocates for R- 1 and 5. CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE MINI PUSHKARNA MINI PUSHKARNA, J (ORAL) This Case is taken up today, as 25th November, 2025, was declared as a holiday. 1. The present writ petition has been filed seeking extension of the contract with respect to the Catering Stall/General Minor Unit No. CS-4, near OHE Pole No. 228/16, at PF-2 of Sant Hiradaram Nagar Railway Station of Bhopal Division. 2. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that he gives up the other prayers and presses only for extension of seven months to vacate Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed By:HARIOM SHARMA Signing Date:28.11.2025 09:41:57 the unit in terms of the various judgments passed by this Court. 3. However, learned counsel appearing for the respondents submits that in the present case, the petitioner has approached this Court belatedly by suppressing the fact that e-auction notice with respect to the stall in question had already been published on 04th November, 2025. He further submits that the present writ petition came to be listed before this Court only on 19th November, 2025, by which time, the bidding process was already over and successful bidder had already been allotted the unit. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the respondent has handed over copy of the short affidavit dated 24th November,