First Newsmedia Private Ltd. .....Respondent. Coram The Hon'ble Mr. Justice L. Narayana Swamy, Chief Justice. The Hon'ble Ms. Justice Jyotsna Rewal Dua, Judge. Whether approved for reporting? For the appellant: Mr. Shrawan Dogra Sr. Advocate with Mr. Vivek Attri, Mr. Tejasvi Dogra and Mr. Abhinav Purohit, Advocates. For the respondents: Respondent No.1 in person. L. Narayana Swamy, Chief Justice. This Arbitration Appeal is directed against the judgment dated 29.11.2019, passed by the learned Single Judge of this Court in Arbitration Case No. 58 of 2019, whereby OMP Nos. 448 and 343 of 2019 were allowed and the objections in Arbitration case No. 58 of 2019 was held not entertainable within the ambit of the prohibition contained in Section 19 of the Micro Small and Medium Enterprises ::: Downloaded on 10/01/2020 20:31:14 :::HCHP 2 Development Act, 2006 for short 'MSMED Act', and for setting aside the Arbitral Reference No. 52 of 2017 being perverse, . illegal and against the public policy, hereinafter referred to as the impugned judgment, on the grounds taken in the appeal. 2. Briefly stated, the facts leading to the presentation of the appeal can be stated thus. On 3.12.2017, the respondent filed a Claim Reference under the MSMED Act with the HP Micro and small Facilitation Council on the ground that the respondent have an outstanding amount of Rs.33,75,984/­, i.e., Rs.16,01,522/­ as principal amount and Rs.17,74,462/­ as interest against the appellant. As the name of Shri Rahul Gandhi, has been dropped by the HP Micro and Small Facilitation Council later on, thus the notice dated 4.1.2018 were issued to the appellant herein. It is stated that the appellant, after receiving the notices appeared before the Himachal Pradesh Micro and Small Facilitation Council through their counsel and obtained the copy of Reference. Since the documents annexed with the Reference Petition were not readable, the authorized signatory of the respondent sought time for providing readable documents and the same ::: Downloaded on 10/01/2020 20:31:14 :::HCHP 3 was prepared by the authorized signatory in his own handwriting and was supplied to the counsel for the appellant. . The appellant sought more time to file reply but during pendency of the Reference, respondent through their authorized signatory moved another application on 18.2.2018, seeking certain additions in the main Claim Reference. 3. The appellant moved application seeking dismissal of the Claim Reference on the ground of jurisdiction, maintainability and limitation. With this application, another application was also moved for deletion of name of Sh. Rahul Gandhi in the original Claim Reference from the array of appellants. The Himachal Pradesh Micro and Small Facilitation Council on 30.6.2018 appointed the Arbitrator and referred the matter for arbitration of Shri Ravinder Prakash Sharma, a Retired District and Sessions Judge. The appellant has received notice dated 9.8.2018 whereby the respondents have totally amended the original claim by amending the same. The appellant, after receiving notice dated 9.8.2018 filed CWP No. 2006 of 2018, before this Court which was disposed of by this Court with the consent of the parties, vide ::: Downloaded on 10/01/2020 20:31:14 :::HCHP 4 order dated 22.11.2018, directing the Arbitrator to pass reasoned award, in terms of the directions contained in the . said order. It is apt to reproduce