KAMLA CONSTRUCTION COMPANY Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The instant arbitration application has been filed by the applicant-Firm under Ss. 10 & 11 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (hereinafter referred to as 'Act of 1996') claiming the following reliefs:-

(2.) The applicant is the partnership Firm, who entered into an agreement with the respondent pertaining to the works pertaining to brick kiln (xxx xxx) to be done from 25/4/1996 to 24/4/1997; thereafter, the work order was issued on 10/4/1996. However, the respondent did not make the necessary pending payments to the applicant against the works so done by it. In pursuance of the letters dtd. 26/5/2020 and 17/7/2020 under the Right to Information Act, 2005, the applicant came to know that total outstanding payment, including security, to be paid by the respondent to the applicant, comes to Rs.1,94,819.00, which was to be paid by the respondent in the year 1999 itself; whereafter, the applicant wrote letters dtd. 20/7/2020, 26/8/2020, 31/8/2020 and 21/9/2020 to the respondent to clear the complete outstanding payments.

(3.) Learned counsel for the applicant submitted that the final bill amount due to be paid to the applicant by the respondent is around 10,23,654/- with interest; the applicant came to know about the said due amount through RTI, in the year of 2020, whereafter, the applicant sent several letters, in regard to the payment of the said final amount, to the respondent.