( 1 ) SHRI G. A. Mani, sole proprietor of Messrs. G. A. Mani Sex-79, filed this application under Sections 14 and 17 of the Arbitration Act, 1940, hereinafter called the Act , stating that disputes having arisen out of the contract for the execution of the work of "construction of Asphalt Roads, Culverts and Storm Wafer Drains for Bulk Fertilizer Unloading and Handling Project at Kandla Port", reference was made to the managing director. Food. Coporation of India, vide letter dated September 8, 1977 and that Shri. B. N. Lokur, Arbitrator, had made and published the award on June 8, 1978, copy whereof was received by the petitioner on June II, 1978. Notice was issued to the Food Corporation of India. Simultaneously the arbitrator was also called upon to file the award which he did on July 9, 1979. Thereupon, notices in regard to the filing of the award were also issued to the patties. Food Corporation of India, hereinafter referred to as the respondent, resisted the application contending that it had been made beyond time, and that this Court lacked territorial jurisdiction as the contract was made at Bombay and was to be performed at Kandla and the fact that the re