Nagpur: The Bombay high court on Wednesday, August 18 quashed a March, 2020 communication issued by a joint venture firm, Mihan India Limited, cancelling an award granted to GMR Airports for the upgradation and operation of Nagpur’s Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport. The court called Mihan’s decision “arbitrary and unfair”.A division bench of Justices Sunil Shukre and Anil Kilor of the high court’s Nagpur bench said the communication, issued to the GMR Infrastructure subsidiary by Mihan deserved to be quashed and set aside.Mihan India Limited is a joint venture between Maharashtra Airport Development Company and the Airports Authority of India.“We find that the impugned communication is arbitrary, unfair and unreasonable and, therefore, it deserves to be quashed and set aside,” the court said. The bench went on to note that the communication was not “sustainable in the eyes of law”. The court has also ordered Mihan to execute a concession agreement with GMR group within six weeks.The high court order came on a petition filed by GMR Airports challenging Mihan’s annulment of the bidding process for upgradation, modernisation, operation and management of the Nagpur international airport despite the process having come to an end and the petitioner, GMR, having already been awarded the project by way of a ‘Letter of Award’ on March 7, 2019. As per the plea, Mihan was planning to issue fresh tenders for the project.Mihan, however, claimed that the communication sent to the petitioner on March 7, 2019, had only been a bid acceptance letter and not a letter of award. The company said the communication clearly stated that the acceptance of the bid was conditional and required approval from the Union Ministry of Civil Aviation.