1. This is an application under section 20 of the Indian Arbitration Act. The petitioner seeks to invoke clause 26 of the agreement, which reads as under:

"If any dispute difference or question shall at any time or times hereafter arise between the Government and the Caterers or any persons or person or corporation claiming under them respectively on account of the breach of any of the covenants, conditions, or agreement here-in contained or otherwise touching or in any way relating to the construction meaning or effect or these presents or any clause or thing here-in contained or the rights duties or liabilities of the said parties respectively touching any valuation matter or thing hereinbefore provided to be determined then every such dispute, difference or question (except such matter the decision where of is other wise expressly hereinbefore provided for) shall be referred to the sole arbitration of the Director General of Civil Aviation, or in case his designation is changed or his office is abolished, to the sole arbitration of the (officer, who for the time being is entrusted, whether or not in addition to other functions, with the functi

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