TRENT LIMITED  Vs ANANT RAJ PROJECTS LIMITED

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$~34 (original side)
* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI
+ O.M.P.(I) (COMM.) 354/2020 & I.A. 9864/2020 , I.A.
9863/2020

TRENT LIMITED ….. Petitioner
Through: Mr. Jayant Bhushan, Sr. Adv. with
Mr. Sahil Narang, Ms. Akanksha Ba nerjee,
Mr. Madhavam Sharma, Mr. Tushar
Bhushan, Advs.

versus

ANANT RAJ PROJECTS LIMITED ….. Respondent
Through: Ms. Gunjan Sinha Jain, Adv.

CORAM:
HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE C. HARI SHANKAR

% 29.01.2021 ORDER (ORAL)
(Video-Conferen cing)

1. By consent, the present petition is disposed of in the following
terms:
(i) Hon’ble Mr. Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed, an eminent
retired Chief Justic e of High Court of Jammu & Kashmir, who
also adorned the Bench of this Court, is appointed as arbitrator
to arbitrate on the disputes between the parties. The fees of the
learned arbitrator would be fixed in consultation with the parties. The contact details of the learned arbitrator are as
under:

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A-14, Friends Colony West,
Mathura Road,
New Delhi -110 065

Phone No.7042205786
Email ID: badardurrez@gmail.com

(ii) The parties are directed to contact the learned A rbitrator
within one week of being communicated a copy of this order by
the Registry of this Court by e -mail. The learned A rbitrator
would furnish the r equisite disclosure under Section 12(2) of the
Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (hereinafter referred to
as “the 1996 Act”) within one week of entering on the
reference.
(iii) The present petition (O.M.P.(I) (COMM.) 354/2020 )
shall be treated as an appli cation under Section 17 of the 1996
Act and shall be decided by the learned A rbitrator in accordance
with law. The petitioner is directed to file the present petition before the learned Arbitrator, as an application under Section
17, within a week of the learned Arbitrator entering on the
reference. The entire record of this case, including the reply of
the respondent and the documents which are on record, may be
taken into consideration by the learned Arbitrator, while
arbitrating on this petition.

(iv) The ad interim directions contained in the order dated
23
rd October, 2020, passed by this Court in the present
proceedings, shall continue to remain in force pending and
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subject to the outcome of the decision of the learned A rbitrator,
on the present petition, treating it as an application under
Section 17.
(v) The learned A rbitrator would decide the application
uninfluenced by any of the observations contained in the order dated 23
rd
October, 2020 , as they were only intended to consider
the prayer for ad interim relief, pending consideration of the
Section 9 petition.

2. With the aforesaid observations, this petition stands disposed of.
3. Pending applications also stand disposed of.

C. HARI SHANKAR, J.
JANUARY 29, 2021
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