New Delhi, April 24 -- The Delhi High Court has upheld the selection process adopted by the Government of NCT of Delhi for implementation of a key nutrition scheme, observing that courts must exercise restraint in interfering with administrative decisions in tender matters unless clear arbitrariness or mala fides is established.

A division bench of Justice Anil Kshetrapal and Justice Amit Mahajan dismissed a batch of writ petitions filed by several NGOs challenging their exclusion from the final selection list dated February 20, 2023, issued by the Department of Women and Child Development for the supply and distribution of supplementary nutrition under the Saksham Anganwadi and Poshan 2.0 scheme.

The Court held that the petitioners fai...