IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Reserved on: 25.08.2025 Pronounced on : 23.09.2025 Union of India through Chief Engineer and others ...Appellants Versus M/s Ram Avtar Gupta ...Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARSIMRAN SINGH SETHI HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VIKAS SURI Present: Mr. Ashish Chaudhary, Advocate for the appellants.

Mr. Wazir Singh, Advocate for the applicant/respondent.

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VIKAS SURI, J.

1. The challenge in the present appeal is to the order dated 21.02.2024 passed by the learned Additional District Judge-cum- Presiding Judge, Exclusive Commercial Court at Gurugram, exercising jurisdiction under the Commercial Courts Act, 2015 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Commercial Courts Act’), whereby two applications, one under Order 7 Rule 11 read with Section 151 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (for short ‘CPC’) and the other application under Section 14 and Section 5 of the Limitation Act, 1963, were disposed of by a common order. The former application has been allowed whereas the latter has been dismissed.

2. Learned counsel for the appellants submits that an Arbitral Award dated 03.08.2019 came to be passed by the sole Arbitrator, arising from agreem