Me and Aretpl (Jv) v. Eastern Coalfields Ltd.
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Order of the High Court at Calcutta, Ordinary Original Civil Jurisdiction, Commercial Division (ODC-1), file AP-COM/700/2024, dated 5 December 2024, authored by the Hon'ble Justice Ravi Krishan Kapur. Substitute-arbitration appointment by consent: after termination of the mandate of the Sole Arbitrator earlier appointed (order dated 23 November 2024 in an application under section 11 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1986) who declined by letter dated 23 November, 2024 to continue for personal reasons despite having entered upon the reference, the Court appointed the Hon'ble Mr. Justice Sanjib Banerjee (Former Chief Justice of Meghalaya and Madras) as substitute Sole Arbitrator between ME AND ARETPL (JV) (petitioner) and EASTERN COALFIELDS LTD (respondent), conditioned on communication of the arbitrator's consent in the prescribed format to the Registrar, Original Side, within three weeks. Petitioner's counsel: Debajyoti Basu, Diptomoy Talukder, D. Ghosh. Respondent's counsel: Syed Nurul Arefin, Debraj Giri, Rahul Singh, Syed M. Arefin, R. Binayak. Themes: arbitration, sole arbitrator substitution, termination of arbitrator's mandate, consent appointment, commercial arbitration, Calcutta ODC.