JUDGMENT :

AKULA VENKATA SESHA SAI, J.

1. Since all these appeals raise common questions of law, this Court deems it appropriate and apposite to hear these matters together and dispose of these appeals by way of a common order.

2. The 1st respondent herein is the claimant in the arbitration proceedings, initiated under the provisions of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (hereinafter called as the "Act") in the year 2014. The appellant herein filed the present interlocutory applications before the learned Arbitrator under the provisions of Section 19 of the Act praying the learned Arbitrator to dismiss the claim statements on the ground that the Power of Attorney is not legally valid. The 1st respondent herein resisted the said interlocutory applications by filing counters. The learned Arbitrator by way of an order dated 16.7.2016 dismissed the said applications. The said order reads as hereunder:

"The petitioner under Section 19 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, for dismissing the claim statement as the Power of Attorney is not legally valid, on the ground that there is no material that the claimant company has issued any letter authorizing the Secretary of the Company