IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA CARBC No.47 of 2025 Reserved on:17.07.2025 Decided on: 30.07.2025 The State of Himachal Pradesh & others … Petitioners Versus Mohinder Singh f…. Respondent.

Coram o Hon’ble Mr. Justice Ajay Mohan Goel, Judge.

Whether approved for reporting?1 ____________________________________________________ _

For the petitioners : Mr. Rupinder Thakur, Additional Advocate General, with Ms. Ayushi Negi, Deputy Advocate General.

For the responodent : Mr. J.S. Bhogal, Senior Advocate, with M/s Chander Shekhar Thakur, Vivek Sharma and Srishti Verma, Advocates.

Ajay Mohan Goel, Judge (Oral)

hBy way of this petition, filed under Section 34 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, the petitioners have assailed Award dated 19.05.2023, passed by learned Sole Arbitrator, in Arbitration Case No.126 of 2021, titled Mohinder Singh Versus State of Himachal Pradesh & others, in terms whereof, learned Arbitrator passed the following Award in favour of the claimant:-

“Thus, while rejecting claim Nos. 2 &3, an award is accordingly passed in total, to the tune of Rs.84,15,899/- (Eighty-four lakhs fifteen thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine only), which shall now be th