JUDGMENT

Prayer: Original Petition filed under Section 34 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 to set aside the award dated 29.09.2018 passed by the Arbitral Tribunal which had arisen out of the dispute between the petitioners and the respondents herein and direct the respondents to pay the costs of the proceedings.)

1. These Original Petitions are filed challenging the three interim awards passed by the Arbitral Tribunal (hereinafter called as the Tribunal) dated 28.11.2013, 15.03.2014 and 29.09.2018.

2. The parties shall hereinafter be referred to by their respective ranks in the award passed by the Tribunal.

3. THE BRIEF FACTS OF THE CASE ARE AS FOLLOWS:

3.1 The business of the Firm is the publication of a Tamil Daily Newspaper called “Dinamalar”. The said Tamil Daily was started by Late T.V.Ramasubbiyer at Trivandrum in 1951. The said T.V.Ramasubbiyer was blessed with five male issues, who were the claimants before the Tribunal. In the year 1957, T.V.Ramasubbiyer had shifted the operations of Dinamalar from Trivandrum to Tirunelveli. In the year