ORDER :- The applicant has filed this Original Application in O.A. No. 341 of 2005 for an order of interim injunction restraining the respondents from disrupting the supply for the requisite natural gas to the petitioner's manufacturing unit situated at No. 123-C Uthamacholapuram, Narimanam P.O. Nagapatinam Taluk, Nagapattinam District pending completion of the arbitration proceedings.

2. The Applicant firm is a manufacturer of Sodium Silicate having its manufacturing unit at Uthamacholapuram, Narimanan P.O. Nagapattinam District. For the above manufacturing activity, they require natural gas. For the supply of natural gas they entered into a contract with the respondent on 27-12-1997 with a duration of five years. It is his case that all of a sudden the respondents in the course of extending the first five years' contract unilaterally suggested certain conditions and accordingly they amended the contract dated 16-12-2002. It is his case that he was forced to sign the said contract under protest. The applicant made representation to alter certain amendments to be carried out in the respondents' draft of the proposed 'amended contract' dated 16-12-2002. But there was no response from

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