JUDGMENT :

The applicant herein has moved this Court for the grant of interim measures under Section 9 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, hereinafter, for the sake of brevity, referred to as the Act.

2. The applicant has sought for an interim measure in the form of a direction to the 1st and 2nd respondents to release the imported goods covered under the House Bill of Lading No.STT-HPH-2003001 dated 11.03.2020 and contained in container No.CBHU9083374 after waiving the container detention charges applicable till the date of clearance of goods in terms of the letters dated 03.10.2020 and 10.11.2020 of the Deputy Commissioner of Customs (Group 3), Chennai in F.No.S59/30/2020-Gr.3.

3. The brief facts preceeding the filing of the application by the applicant are as follows:

The applicant herein had in the course of their business imported “non-woven interlining” from Vietnam. This is essentially non-woven textile material. The goods were imported under Bill of Entry dated 18.02.2020. They were shipped from Hai Phong Port, Vietnam to Chennai Port under a Bill of Lading dated 24.01.2020 issued by the 1st respondent. The goods had entered the Chennai Port and since the non-woven i