M/S. NIMBUS HARBOR FACILITIES MANAGEMENT PVT. LIMITED Vs. BELLEVUE CENTRAL PART KK CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE petitioner is a Private Limited Company, duly incorporated and registered under the Indian Companies Act, 1956. It is engaged in the business of, inter alia, providing management services including maintenance, engineering and housekeeping. In pursuance to the discussions held with the respondent, a Society, an agreement was entered into on 1.2.2012, for the petitioner to provide housekeeping services at the amount specified. It is the case of the petitioner that enhanced services were asked thereafter from time to time and invoices were also raised from time to time. The agreement inter -se the parties is stated to have been put to an end by the President of the respondent through an E -mail dated 16.7.2013, calling upon the petitioner to withdraw all manpower from the Society with immediate effect, but simultaneously assuring that all dues will be cleared. These dues, however, are stated not to have been cleared despite communications and discussions giving rise to a dispute.

(2.) THE agreement contained an arbitration clause 20, as under: -

(3.) THE petitioner filed an Arbitration Petition No. 19 of 2014 before the Delhi High Court which was, however, dismissed as withdrawn with liberty to move the competent court of jurisdiction as the parties were based at Gurgaon, the services were rendered at Gurgaon and the agreement had also been signed at Gurgaon. It is, thereafter, that the present petition has been filed under Section 11(6) of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 before this Court.