JUDGMENT :

M.R. SHAH, J.

1. Feeling aggrieved and dissatisfied with the impugned judgment and order dated 27.08.2021 passed by the High Court of Madhya Pradesh in A.C. No. 100/2019, by which the application preferred by the appellant under Section 14 read with Sections 11 and 15 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Arbitration Act, 1996’) seeking termination of the mandate of originally constituted Arbitral Tribunal and to appoint a new arbitrator has been dismissed, the original applicant before the High Court has preferred the present appeal.

2. That the respondent herein issued a tender for supply of the cream wove paper and duplicating paper for the year 1993-94. The appellant herein participated in the said tender process and was awarded the contract vide supply order dated 22.09.1993. A dispute arose between the appellant and the respondent. According to the appellant herein, though it supplied 420 MT of cream wove paper and 238 MT of duplicating paper to the respondent, the latter not only did not make the payment of 90% of the amount as per the terms of the contract, but also rejected some consignments without any justification, causin