FAO No. 3336 of 2008 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH -- FAO No. 3336 of 2008 Date of decision: October 27, 2009 Jaswant Singh ........ Appellant Versus State of Punjab and another .......Respondent(s) Coram: Hon'ble Ms Justice Nirmaljit Kaur -.- Present: Mr. S K Chawla, Advocate for the appellant Mr. M S Sandhu, Addl. A.G. Punjab for the respondent -.- 1. Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgement? 2. To be referred to the Reporter or not? 3. Whether the judgement should be reported in the Digest? Nirmaljit Kaur, J. This is an appeal against the order dated 20.12.2007 passed by the Additional District Judge, Faridkot, dismissing the objection petition under Section 34 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (in short the 1996 Act) against the awarded dated 30.06.2006. While challenging the aforesaid order, the learned counsel for the appellant submitted that the Additional District Judge has not given any sound reasoning for not considering the specific claim submitted by the appellant. FAO No. 3336 of 2008 2 The appellant had been in litigation with the respondents since 1985. In fact, following 11 claims were made by the appellant, which were considered and the award to the same effect was passed on 27.02.1989:- Claim No.1 Rs. Nil (Rupees Nil) Claim No. 2 Rs.1707.93 (Rs. One thousand, Seven Hundred seven and Paise Ninety three only Claim No. 3 Withdrawn by the contractor/petitioner Claim No.4 Withdrawn by the contractor/petitioner Claim No. 5 Rs. Nil (Rupees Nil) Claim No. 6 Rs. Nil (Rupees Nil) Claim No. 7 Rs. Nil (Rupees Nil) Claim No. 8 Rs. Nil (Rupees Nil) Claim No. 9 Rs.1861 (Rs. One thousand, eight hundred sixty one and paise ten only) Claim No. 10 Withdrawn by the petitioner/contractor Claim No. 11 Withdrawn by the petitioner/contractor The appellant filed an application on 21.04.1989 in the Court of Senior Sub Judge, Faridkot for setting aside the award passed by the Arbitrator. The award was set aside by the Court. Further, appeal filed against aforesaid order was also dismissed on 25.09.2000 and the order passed by the Senior Sub Judge was maintained up to the Hon'ble Supreme Court of India but remanded back to the Superintending Engineer, for decision fresh. Thereafter, the appellant submitted new claims vide his letter dated 14.10.2004 for Rs.1,25,369 and vide letter dated 4.03.2003 for Rs.5,50,792.10 with interest @ 24%. The contesting respondent raised an objection qua the submission of the new claims. The appellant did not show any interest in contesting 11 claims made earlier. The appellant also did not show any justification in submitting FAO No. 3336 of 2008 3 the new claims after a gap of more then 14 years of the earlier claims. Nothing has been pointed out, which may enable this court to interfere in the well reasoned order dated 20.12.2007 passed by the Additional District Judge, Faridkot. No merits. Dismissed. (Nirmaljit Kaur) Judge October 27, 2009 mohan