I.A. Ansari, J.

A.B. Grain Spirits Pvt. Limited, a Public Limited Company, registered under the Companies Act, 1956, has come to this Court with the present petition, made under Section 11(5) and (6) of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, seeking appointment of a sole arbitrator for deciding the disputes and differences between petitioner and respondents pursuant to an agreement, dated 19.08.2014.

2. The background facts, giving rise to the present petition, may, in brief, be set out as under:-

(i) Initially, the respondents herein issued a notice inviting tender for operating intra-city bus services in Patna and Bodh Gaya by Request for Qualification, dated 02.01.2014. Later on, by corrigendum, dated 22.04.2014, the Request for Qualification, dated 02.01.2014, was recalled, excluding Bodh Gaya from the said project and a fresh tender was issued for operating intra-city bus services in Patna by a Request for Proposal.

(ii) During the process of finalization of the tender, the respondents issued specific clarifications and corrigenda to the queries of the petitioner and other bidders with regard to the scope of work, more particularly, overlapping operation and mainten