Advocates:
['OFFICE REFERENCE', '', 'PRAFULL N BHARAT', 'SUNIL OTWANI', 'AMICUS CURIE', 'A G']

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AFR

HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH, BILASPUR

Order reserved on 08-05-2018

Order delivered on 12-10-2018

WP227 No. 299 of 2018

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A Suo Moto Taken Writ Petition

---- Petitioner

Versus

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State Of Chhattisgarh Through Secretary Law And Legislative

Affairs Mahanadi Bhawan, Naya Raipur, District Raipur

Chhattisgarh.

---- Respondent

Appearance :

This is an office reference.

Dr. N.K. Shukla, Sr. Advocate, Shri Pramod Verma, Sr.

Advocate, Shri Prafull N. Bharat, Advocate and Shri Sunil

Otwani, Advocate, appeared as amicus curiae.

FULL BENCH

Hon'ble Shri Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra

Hon'ble Shri Justice Manindra Mohan Shrivastava

Hon'ble Shri Justice Ram Prasanna Sharma

C A V Order

The following order of the Court was delivered by

Prashant Kumar Mishra, J.

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This suo moto petition under Article 227 of the Constitution of

India is a reference made to the Full Bench by Hon’ble the Chief

Justice on a request made by the District & Sessions Judge,

Durg, in its memo dated 5-3-2018 to the effect that 859

Arbitration Cases are pending before the District & Sessions

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Judge i.e. the Principal Civil Court of Original Jurisdiction which

cannot be transferred