Manmohan Singh, J.

1. By this order, I shall dispose of OMP No.856/2012 filed by the petitioner against the respondents seeking in the interim measures under Section 9 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Act’) pending the arbitration. The brief factual matrix of the matter leading up to the filing of the present petition can be enunciated as under: a) The petitioner namely Dorling Kindersley (India) Pvt. Ltd. claims to be engaged in the business of publishing wide varieties of the books and other educational contents under the name and style of the “Pearson Education” (under license from Dorling Kindersley Ltd., UK). It is stated that the respondent No. 1 is a partnership firm having its partners who are arrayed as respondent No. 2 to 4. It is however stated that the respondent No.4 has resigned from the partnership illegally which has affected the claims of the petitioner against the respondent No. 1 firm. b) It is stated in the petition that the petitioner and the respondents entered into an agreement dated 14th December, 2009 where under the petitioner was given the exclusive rights to publish and market the engineering books