THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY Writ Petition No.28123 of 2011 Dated 01st November, 2011 Between: Kalti Lakshmaiah …Petitioner And The Government of A.P., rep.by its Principal Secretary, Tribal Welfare Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad and others …Respondents Counsel for the petitioner: Sri N.Gowri Shanker Counsel for respondent Nos.4 to 6: Sri J.Lokesh Reddy The Court made the following: ORDER: This writ petition is filed for a mandamus to set aside Award No.1371 of 2009, dated 30.12.2009, as being inconsistent with the provisions of the Andhra Pradesh Scheduled Areas Money Lenders Regulation, 1960, the Agency Rules, 1924 and in violation of Article 244(1) of V Schedule of the Constitution of India. After hearing the learned counsel for the petitioner, I am of the opinion that the writ petition filed assailing the award of an Arbitrator is not maintainable. The Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (for short ‘the Act’) is a self-contained code, which provides for legal remedies for the parties, who are aggrieved by the awards passed by the Arbitrator. Irrespective of the nature of the purported illegalities the awards may suffer from, the aggrieved party is entitled to avail remedies under the Act in order to question the awards. No reasons are put forth by the petitioner to approach this Court by way of a writ petition, bypassing the effective statutory remedies provided under the Act. In this view of the matter, I am not inclined to entertain this writ petition and the same is accordingly dismissed with liberty to the petitioner to avail the remedies under the Act. As a sequel to dismissal of the writ petition, W.P.M.P.No.34702 of 2011 is disposed of as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY, J 01st November, 2011 VGB