JUDGMENT

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1. The defendant has filed the present applications under Section 8 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (the ‘A&C Act’), seeking referral of the disputes, in the suits, to arbitration in terms of the arbitration agreement between the parties.

2. The facts involved in