( 1 ) IS matter comes before us as a result of the reference made by one of the learned single Judge.

( 2 ) HEARD Sri B. Adinarayana Rao, learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and Sri. Y. Ratnakar, learned counsel appearing for the respondent.

( 3 ) IT appears that the award passed by the Arbitral Tribunal was challenged before the Civil Court in terms of Section 34 of arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (for short 1996 Act ).

( 4 ) THE petitioner who challenged the award did not present himself before the lower Court on the date fixed. Therefore the application was dismissed by the Civil Court. Thereafter the petitioner filed an application in I. A. No. 2017/2002 seeking restoration of the earlier application being O. P. No. 1524/99. When this application was listed, again the petitioner absented himself and this application was also dismissed. The order passed in I. A. No. 2017/2002 dismissing the application in default and the order passed in O. P. No. 1524/99 dismissing the O. P. in default have been challenged by way of C. R. P. No. 332/2003. When this matter came before the learned Single Judge, he felt that the matter was of wider magnitude and mu