In order to execute a companytract between the parties, respondent No.In order to bring the pipes to India, the respondent, a Government Corporation, was required to go through M s Transchart, a department of the Ministry of Surface Transport, which brokers charter party arrangements with various vessel owners, for the purposes of shipping of pipes from Tampico Port.
The respondent, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd., entered into an agreement with M s Tubacero of Mexico for purchase of pipes for its Kandla Bhatinda Pipeline project on September 16, 1993.
M s Transchart invited offers from various ship owners and the appellant was one of the ship owners who made an offer.
This appeal by special leave calls in question the judgment and order of the Delhi High Court dated Oct. 17, 1996 and arises in the following circumstances.
Dr. A.S.Anand.
CJI Leave granted.
According to the terms of the agreement, M s Tubacero were to deliver the pipes to the respondent at Tampico Port in Mexico.
