ORDER

1. Leave granted.

2. The Court of Subordinate Judge, Emakulam has directed an award made under the Arbitration Act, 1940 to be made rule of the court overruling the objections preferred thereagainst. The objectors (respondents before us) preferred an appeal in the High Court of Kerala at Emakulam. The Division Bench, which heard the appeal, formed an opinion that the cause of action relating to the subject-matter of arbitration and award could be said to have arisen only in the districts of Kollam or Pathanamthitta or Idukki and not in Emakulam. If the subject-matter of arbitration would have been sought to be filed as a suit, it could never have been in a court at Emakulam. In the opinion of the High Court, the hearing and the decree made by the Court of Subordinate Judge were vitiated for want of territorial jurisdiction. For this reason alone, the High Court set aside the decree and directed that either the award be returned to the arbitrator or all the proceedings be transferred to the competent court at Kottarakkara. The claimant has come up in appeal by special leave.

3. Having heard the learned counsel for the parties, we are satisfied that the view taken by the High Co