RAJ KUMAR Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD Sri J.S. Pandey, learned Advocate in support of this appeal and Sri Mithilesh Chandra Tripathi, learned Advocate who appears for the Union of India.

(2.) CHALLENGE in this appeal is to the order passed by the learned District Judge, Agra dated 29.2.2008 by which application filed by the appellant under Section 9 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, has been rejected.

(3.) IN the above factual background, the appellant applied to the Court under Section 9 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (in short hereinafter an Act) for interim protection that the respondents be restrained from settling the contract with any third party and that the contract be settled only in favour of the appellant.