National Highways Authority of India v. Sri P Jagannath Pai
Case brief
What is this about?
Karnataka High Court (Bengaluru), MFA No. 4236 of 2023 (AA), decided 07.03.2025 by Justice Hanchate Sanjeevkumar (oral judgment). NHAI (Project Implementation Unit, Mangalore) appealed under S.37(1)(c) of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act against the 20.03.2023 order of the I Additional District and Sessions Judge, Mangaluru in Arbitration Petition No.39/2022 dismissing its Section 34 petition (read with Section 3G(6), National Highways Act, 1956); respondents: P Jagannath Pai (R1, represented by Sri Krishnamoorthy D) and the Arbitrator/Deputy Commissioner, D.K. District (R2, served and unrepresented). On a memo dated 06.01.2025 by Sri Hanumantha Reddy G withdrawing the appeal as not pressed, the appeal was dismissed as not pressed. No merits adjudication, no precedent discussion, no quantum.
What did the court decide?
In view of the memo dated 06.01.2025 filed by learned counsel for the appellant for withdrawal of the appeal as not pressed, which was taken on record, the appeal is dismissed as not pressed.