V. Ramasubramanian, J.

Challenging an Arbitration Award, the company which suffered the award, has come up with the above revision under Article 227 of the Constitution of India.

2. Heard Mr. S. Ravi, learned senior counsel appearing for the petitioner and Mr. P.V. Ramaraju, learned counsel appearing for the 1st respondent/award holder.

3. At the outset, the very maintainability of the revision under Article 227 of the Constitution as against an Arbitration Award is questioned and hence, the same has to be dealt with, before any other aspect could be gone into.

4. It appears that the petitioner and the 1st respondent entered into two Memoranda of Understanding and they contained a clause for arbitration. A dispute arose after the termination of the Memoranda of Understanding with effect from 31-12-2001. Therefore, the 1st respondent herein issued a notice to the petitioner on 08-08-2014 invoking the arbitration clause and calling upon them to have discussions with their General Manager for the appointment of an Arbitrator by consent and also cautioning that if the petitioner failed to respond, they would proceed to appoint an Arbitrator by themselves.

5. On the ground that the pe