JUDGMENT :

Prayer: Arbitration Original Petition filed under Section 11(4) of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 praying to appoint a sole arbitrator under Clause 29 of the bye-laws to adjudicate the dispute between the parties.

1. This petition is filed under Section 11(4) of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, to appoint a sole arbitrator under Clause 29 of the bye-laws to adjudicate the dispute between the parties.

2. Brief facts which gave rise to filing of the present Original Petition, are as follows:

(a) The petitioner is a real estate developer and had entered into a development of project with the respondents by putting up a residential apartment complex in Cheran Nagar, situated at Perumbakkam Village (earlier Tambaram Taluk, now Sholinganallur Taluk), Kancheepuram District. After obtaining all the necessary building permission, approval etc. from the State authorities, the housing complex was put up by the petitioner consisting of Blocks 1 to 4 with stilt plus 9 floors; Blocks 5 and 7 to 10 with EWS Blocks consisting of stilt plus 19 floors and Block 6 consisting of ground floor plus 19 floors and School block consisting of ground floor plus two floors. The t