The Delhi High Court has set aside BSNL's decision to withdraw a purchase order placed by it with a private IT company in relation to providing central billing and internet protocol data recovery (IPDR) solutions. The state-owned telecom company had rescinded the multi-crore contract with Millennium Automation Private Limited, dated July 19, for 'Supply, Installation, Testing, Commissioning and Annual Maintenance of IT hardware and related software for BSNL's centralized Mobile Billing System and Probe based IPDR Management Solution', alleging collusion and mala fide on part of the company in securing the purchase order. Justice Sanjeev Narula, in a judgement passed on November 19, said that while the sanctity of the tendering process must be zealously guarded and any deviation must be met with appropriate consequences, the argument of "compromised integrity" in this case could not be sustained in the absence of any "concrete material" to support BSNL's claims. The judge stated that