ORDER

The applicant in these arbitration requests is a company engaged in manufacture and supply of drugs/medicines. From 2008 onwards, it has been supplying drugs/medicines to the 1^st respondent, a government company. Disputes projected in these arbitration requests pertain to various agreements executed between the petitioner and the 1^st respondent for supply of drugs and medicines.

2. Dispute in A.R.No.172/2025 pertains to the tender year 2019-20. In A.R.No.173/2025, agreement entered during the tender year 2018-19 is involved. In A.R.No.174/2025, the agreement involved is of the tender year 2017-18. Since the nature of disputes is one and the same in all these arbitration requests, I propose to dispose them by a common order. References made to documents in this order is as per they are indexed in A.R.No.172/2025.

3. The dispute precisely is with regard to the alleged shortage in the payment of the amounts claimed by the petitioners for the supply of medicines and drugs under the respective