The arbitrators differed, and the dispute was referred to an umpire who made and published his award on April 19, 1967.
Appeal by special leave from the judgment and order dated August 30, 1968 of the Madhya Pradesh High Court in Civil Revision No.
Against that order the appellant moved the High Court of Madhya Pradesh in exercise of its revisional jurisdiction.
By order dated September 29, 1967, the District Judge directed that the award be impounded.
The High Court rejected the petition and the appellant appeals to this Court with special leave.
The respondents then applied to the District Court that the award be impounded and validated by levy of stamp duty and penalty.
30 and 33 of the Indian Arbitration Act, 1940.
The umpire filed the award in the Court of the District Judge, Rajnandgaon in the State of Madhya Pradesh and gave numberice of the filing of the award to the parties to the dispute.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Civil Appeal, No, 2425 of 1968.
K. Daphtary, and I. N. Shroff for the appellant.
764 of 1967.
Rameshwar Nath and Mahinder Narain for the respondents The Judgment of the Court was delivered by Shah, J. The respondents entered into a companytract with Hindustan Steel Ltd. for raising, stacking, carting and loading into wagons limestone at Nandini Mines.
On July 14, 1967 the appellant filed an application for setting aside the ward under ss.
One of the companytentions raised by the appellants was that the award was unstamped and on that account invalid and illegal and liable to be set aside.
He then called upon the respondents to pay the appropriate stamp duty on the award and penalty and directed that an authenticated companyy of the instrument be sent to the Collector, Durg, together with a certificate in writing stating the receipt of the amount of duty and penalty.,
61 of the agreement.
Dispute which arose between the parties was referred to arbitration, pursuant to cl.
