IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY, THE SECOND DAY OF MARCH TWO THOUSAND AND TEN PRESENT HON'BLE MR JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.4647 of 2010 BETWEEN: Gaddam Upender Reddy ..... PETITIONER(S) AND The Government of A.P., rep by the Secretary (R&B), Hyderabad and another .....RESPONDENT(S) HON'BLE MR JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.4647 of 2010 ORDER: The petitioner herein is a Class-I contractor. He executed the work of laying the Khammam-Bonakal road. On certain disputes having arisen between the petitioner and the respondents, the I Additional Judge, City Civil Court, Hyderabad, by order dated 29.04.1992 in O.P.No.397/1990, appointed a sole arbitrator who passed an award dated 23.02.1993. On an application being filed to make the award a ‘Rule of the Court’, the II Additional Senior Civil Judge, City Civil Court, Hyderabad, is said to have made the award a ‘Rule of the Court’, by order dated 15.11.2001. Sri D.Raghava Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioner, would submit that, while the respondents had settled some of the dues payable to the petitioner under the award, payment has not yet been made with regard to certain other components of the award. The petitioner has an efficacious alternative remedy under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (hereinafter referred to as – ‘the Act’), to have the award executed. I see no reason, therefore, to entertain a Writ Petition seeking a direction to the respondents to pay the amounts allegedly due to the petitioner under the award. Leaving it open to the petitioner to avail such other remedies as are available to him in the law to have the award implemented, the writ petition fails and is, accordingly, dismissed. There shall be no order as to costs. ______________________________ RAMESH RANGANATHAN, J. 2nd March 2010 CVRK