Bangalore District Court Shankaranarayana Constructions Pvt ... vs Manjunath Papanna on 25 July, 2025 IN THE COURT OF LXXXIX ADDL.CITY CIVIL & SESSIONS JUDGE, BENGALURU. (CCH90) Present: Sri.K.M.RAJENDRA KUMAR., LLM, M.Phil, LXXXIX Addl.City Civil & Sessions Judge, Bengaluru. DATED THIS THE 25th DAY OF JULY 2025 Com.OS.No.5396/2018 Plaintiff : M/s. Shankaranarayana Constructions Pvt.Ltd., A company incorporated under the provisions of the Companies Act, 1956, Having its registered office at: SNC House, 4th Floor, No.7, Residency Road, (Old No.9, Raja Ram Mohan Roy Road), Bengaluru560025. Represented by its duly authorized signatory, Subramanian Annamalai. (By M/s.Keystone Partners) V/s. Defendant : Manjunath Papanna, Sole Proprietor, /2/ Com.O.S.No.5396/2018 Lima Engineering Services, A Proprietary concern, Having its office at: No.220, 3rd C Cross, 2nd Block, 3rd Stage, Basaveshwaranagar, Bengaluru560 079. (By Sri.Rakesh Bhatt And Associates, Advocate) Date of Institution of suit : 25.07.2018 Nature of suit : Money Suit (suit on pronote, suit for declaration and possession suit for injunction, etc.,) Date of commencement : 21.06.2022 of recording of evidence Date of judgment : 25.07.2025 Total duration : Year/s Month/s Day/s 07 00 00 (K.M.RAJENDRA KUMAR) LXXXIX ADDL.CITY CIVIL & SESSIONS JUDGE, BENGALURU. (CCH90) /3/ Com.O.S.No.5396/2018 JUDGMENT The Plaintiff has filed this suit praying the Court to pass a judgment and decree a. Directing the defendant to pay the plaintiff a sum of ₹.2,72,70,460/ (Rupees Two Crores Seventy Two Lakhs Seventy Thousand Four Hundred and Sixty Only). b. Directing the defendant to pay interest pendente lite @ 24% p.a. on the suit claim. c. Directing the defendant to pay future interest, to be computed from the date of suit till the date of eventual payment, @ 24% p.a. on the suit claim; d. Directing the defendant to bear the costs of the present proceedings; e. Pass any other orders as this Court deems fit in the interest of justice and equity. The brief facts of the plaintiff's case are as under: 02. That, the plaintiff is private company limited by shares, incorporated under the provisions of the Companies Act, 1956 and presently operating under the Companies Act, 2013. That, the plaintiff is a renowned civil contractor and /4/ Com.O.S.No.5396/2018 has successfully completed construction of various largescale infrastructure projects in diverse fields such as power, irrigation, transportation and civil engineering works. 03. That, the defendant is the sole proprietor of the proprietary concern trading under the name 'Lime Engineering Services', which is in the business of providing steel structuring services. 04. That, the plaintiff placed work order dated 14.07.2016 bearing reference No.SNC/BNG/201617/258 on the defendant for structural steel fabrication, erection, alignment and other miscellaneous work (with mild steel rolled section/built up section/combination of both) to be performed in connection with coal handling plant and an Ash Handling Plant at Kothagudem Thermal Power Station Unit 12 Stage VII (1x800MW), Kothagudem, Paloncha, Khammam Dist, Telangana. 05. That, the plaintiff itself had been awarded a work order in connection with the above project by its own end client, BHELPSSR; and under the said work order, the plaintiff had to carry out a number of works in relation to the /5/ Com.O.S.No.5396/2018 Coal Handling and Ash Handling Plant at Kothagudem Thermal Power Station. That, the defendant was, thus, a subcontractor of the plaintiff, and was appointed for the purposes of taking up a portion of the works at this plant, the scope of which portion was described in the Work Order issued by the plaintiff to the defendant. 06. That, the work order, and all the