U.N.Sinha, J.

1. This is an application filed by the Official Liquidator of Monghyr Electric Supply Company Limited fin liquidation), under Sec.20 of the Arbitration Act, 1940, praying that the Bihar State Electricity Board may be directed to file an agreement dated the 6th July. 1956 between Monghyr Electric Supply Company Limited and the Governor of Bihar, with respect to the dues and claims of the company for its undertaking taken over by the Government of Bihar. Further prayers are that after a perusal of the agreement, an order may be parsed referring the dispute to an arbitrator to be appointed by mutual consent, and and if not to an arbitrator appointed by the Court. To this application the respondents are the Bihar State Electricity Board and the Government of Bihar, through the Secretary of the Electricity Department, added subsequently.

2. The circumstances: under which this application has been filed are these: The Registrar of Companies. Bihar had moved this Court for winding up Monghyr Electric Supply Company Limited, and by an order passed on the 18th December, 1962, the Company was ordered to be wound up by the Court. The Official Liquidator is in charge of t