P. B. MUKHARJI, J.

( 1 ) THIS is an application by Kannayyalal Dugar for extending the time for making the award of the Tribunal of Arbitration of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce in Case No. 1001 of 1954 made on the 11th August, 1955 after the expiry of the time for making the same under Clause (3) of the First Schedule of Arbitration Act, 1940.

( 2 ) THE dispute has a rather chequered history. It relates to a contract for sale of 2000 maunds of jute on the 23rd April, 1952. There were quarrels between the parties about the manner of delivery and the dispute was referred to the Bengal Chamber of Commerce who made an award on the 10th February, 1953. Thereafter an application was made by the respondent for setting aside that award and the award was ultimately declared a nullity on the 16th August, 1953. That was the fate of the first award. The matter was again referred to the Arbitration of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce. The Court was constituted at first on the 29th September, 1954 with Mr. Cornish and Mr. Kedarnath Bajoria as arbitrators. This Court of the Arbitrators entered on the reference on the 15th October, 1954. The buyer respondent filed his counter-statement objecting

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