THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE T. VINOD KUMAR AND THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE PULLA KARTHIK CIVIL REVISION PETITION No. 882 of 2019

ORDER

1. This Civil Revision Petition is filed aggrieved by the docket order dated 31.12.2018 in Memo. S.R. No.6041 of 2018 in C.O.P. No. 84 of 2018 passed by the Commercial Court Judge – cum –

XXIV Additional Chief Judge, City Civil Court, at Hyderabad.

2. Heard Sri P. Sri Harsha Reddy, learned counsel for the petitioner and Smt. Manjari S. Ganu learned counsel representing Sri Sunil B. Ganu, learned counsel for the respondent No.1 and perused the record.

3. The respondent No.1 herein filed the aforesaid C.O.P under Section 34 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (for short ‘the Act, 1996’) challenging the Arbitration Award dated 16.04.2018. The petitioner herein is the respondent No.1 before the court below.

4. The petitioner herein, filed the underlying memo raising a preliminary objection that the Commercial Court, Hyderabad did not have jurisdiction to entertain the subject O.P. under Section 42 of the Act, 1996, since previously the 1^st respondent herein had filed A.O.P. No.402 of 2016 before the District Court, Khammam under Section 9 of the Act, 1996