Recovery Dealers Private Limited v. Pulin Baidya

OD-6 ORDER SHEET

IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA

ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION ORIGINAL SIDE AP/201/2025 RECOVERY DEALERS PRIVATE LIMITED VS PULIN BAIDY

BEFORE:

The Hon'ble JUSTICE GAURANG KANTH Date: 17THDecember, 2025.

APPEARANCE:

Mr. Satadeep Bhattacharyya, Adv.

Mr. Saptarshi Datta, Adv.

Ms. Srinjita Ghosh, Adv.

Mr. Pourush Kanti Pal, Adv.

Mr. DebdutHore, Adv.

...for the petitioner.

The Court : Affidavit of service is taken on record. None appears for the respondent.

The petitioner has preferred the present application under Section 29A of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, seeking extension of mandate of the Arbitral Tribunal for conclusion of the proceedings and publication of the arbitral award.

It is the case of the petitioner that learned sole Arbitrator was appointed by this Court vide order dated 05.01.2023. The pleadings were completed on 15.05.2023. Parties by mutual consent extended the mandate of the arbitral Tribunal by six months till the month of November, 2024. Learned counsel for the petitioner states that an application under Section 29A for seeking extension of the mandate was filed before this Court. This Court vide order dated 25.03.2025 had granted an extension of eight months to the learned Sole Arbitrator to conclude the proceedings.

Learned counsel for the petitioner further states that the Arbitrator has already held more than 60 sittings and the matter is presently at the stage of final argument and that the evidence has already been concluded. Considering the facts and the arguments made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, this Court is satisfied that there has been no undue and unwarranted delay on the part of the learned sole Arbitrator in concluding the proceedings.

It is noted that the matter is already at the final argument stage and in the interest of justice, the mandate of the Arbitral Tribunal is further extended for a period of six months to conclude the arbitral proceedings and publish the arbitral award.

Learned sole Arbitrator is requested to make all endeavours conclude the proceedings and publish the award within the extended time period. With the aforesaid directions, the present application being AP/201/2025 is disposed of.

(GAURANG KANTH, J.) KB AR(CR)