HC seal on Adani's Dharavi project

The Bombay High Court on Friday upheld the contract awarded to Adani Properties Private Limited for the Dharavi slum redevelopment project, while dismissing the plea by Dubai-based Seclink Technology Corporation, terming it as 'misconceived'.

- Urvi Mahajani

The court dismissed the plea by the company, which had alleged that the tender conditions were 'tailor-made' to suit the Adani Group and oust other bidders.

"The grounds urged in support of the petition lack force and accordingly, the challenge to the impugned action on the part of the respondents authorities, whereby the earlier tender process was cancelled and fresh tender process has been resorted to, fails," said a bench of Chief Justice D K Upadhyaya and Justice Amit Borkar.

Seclink had challenged the government resolution (GR) issued on July 13, 2023, by the state housing department, formally awarding the project to Adani Properties as the lead partner in the project, and the subsequent work order issued on July 17 last year.

The Adani Group had emerged as the highest bidder for the 259-hectare Dharavi Redevelopment Project. It was declared the highest bidder after it quoted Rs 5,069 crore and with the Rs 2,800crore payment to the Railways, the bid amount stood at Rs 7,869 crore.