New Delhi, July 15 -- The Delhi High Court has set aside the technical evaluation process adopted by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) for outsourcing Consular, Passport and Visa (CPV) services at Indian Missions in Abu Dhabi (UAE), Kuwait, Singapore and Canberra (Australia), holding that the evaluation suffered from arbitrariness, irrationality and lack of transparency.

The Court directed the Union Government to issue fresh Requests for Proposal (RFPs) for all four Missions within one month and make sincere efforts to conclude the tender process at the earliest.

A Division Bench of Justice Anil Kshetrapal and Justice Shail Jain allowed a batch of petitions filed by E Trav Tech Limited and Verasys Limited challenging their technica...