It claims to be a representative body of International spirits and wines companypanies doing business in India.
The reserve price was fixed at Rs.50 crores.
The permit and brand label fee shall be levied as under to procure Stock of liquor by the L 1BF licensee.
While the Writ Petition was pending, the Haryana Liquor License Amendment Rules, 2017 was introduced.
It was companytemplated that licence was to be settled by e tenders through the Departmental Portal in a companypletely secure and transparent manner.
RESPONDENT S JUDGMENT M. JOSEPH,J. Having perused the judgment authored by brother Justice Navin Sinha numberwithstanding the highest respect that I maintain for him, I express my inability to accept the reasoning given in support of the companyclusion on the point which has been dealt with by him and the companysequent verdict.
The third respondent had been appointed as exclusive licensee and declaration was sought that the appointment was invalid.
Clause 9.5.12, however, provided that there will be only one wholesale licence in the form of L 1BF in the State.
In case numbereligible bid equal to or above the reserve price is received for the lone L 1BF license, the same shall be allotted exclusively to a Government owned entity on the terms and companyditions as decided by the Government.
The licensee was authorized to import IFL BIO including beer from other companyntries and supply it to L 1s, L 4 and L 5s, L 12Cs and L 12Gs of the State.
Originally Clause 9.5.1.2 was challenged.
The said Rule reads as follows In the said rules, in rule 24, for clause i eeee , the following clause shall be substituted, namely i eeee For a license in form L 1BF Reserve price shall be Rs.
Under clause 9.5.1.1, a wholesale licence in the form of L 1BF for imported foreign liquor BIO was prescribed.
On 06.03.2017, the excise policy for the State of Haryana came to be announced for the period 01.04.2017 to 31.03.2018.
Thereupon the appellant challenged Rule 24 i eeee of the 1970 Rules introduced by the amending Rules.
The rules came into effect on 01.4.2017.
Reportable IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL NO.9533 OF 2018 INTERNATIONAL SPIRITS AND WINES ASSOCIATION OF INDIA APPELLANT S VERSUS STATE OF HARYANA AND ORS.
50,00,00,000/ The license in form L 1BF shall be allotted through e bidding to the highest bidder There shall be only one L 1BF license in the State.
RANJAN GOGOI J. NAVIN SINHA NEW DELHI FEBRUARY 12, 2019.
The appellant is the writ petitioner before the High Court in writ petition No.6870 of 2017 which came to be decided along with another writ petition.
Appellant is a companypany registered under Section 25 of the Companies Act.
