NEW DELHI, May 10 -- The Delhi High Court has reserved its order on a plea by Germany-based Utimaco Technologies challenging the Centre's decision to appoint state-owned Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) as the sole vendor for India's emergency cell broadcast system without a public tender.

The ruling is expected to determine whether the government can proceed with the commercial rollout of the emergency alert system through C-DOT alone or will have to open the project to competitive bidding.

"The parties are directed to file their updated synopsis of submissions, not exceeding three pages. Let the same be filed within a period of one week," the court said in an order dated 5 May, which was made public on 8 May.

The case, wh...