GMTD BSNL HISAR HARYANA vs SURESH KUMAR SECURITY AGENCY

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$~29 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of decision: 02.05.2025 + FAO (COMM) 106/2025 GMTD BSNL HISAR HARYANA .....Appellant Through: Ms. Sangeeta Sondhi, Mr. Daksh Jain and Mr. Amit Patra, Advs. versus SURESH KUMAR SECURITY AGENCY .....Respondent Through: Mr. Dhaval Mehrotra and Ms. Aditi Desai, Advocates. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAVIN CHAWLA HON’BLE MS. JUSTICE RENU BHATNAGAR NAVIN CHAWLA, J. (Oral) CM APPL. 26658/2025(Exemption) 1. Allowed, subject to all just exceptions. CM APPL. 26656/2025 (Delay of 63 days) 2. For the reasons stated in the application, the delay of 63 days in filing the appeal is condoned. 3. The application stands disposed of. FAO (COMM) 106/2025 & CM APPL. 26657/2025 4. This appeal has been filed under Section 37(1) of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Act’), challenging the Order dated 19.11.2024 (hereinafter referred to as ‘Impugned Order’) passed by the learned District Judge Commercial Court-01, South District, Saket Courts in OMP (COMM) Signature Not Verified Signed By:VIJAYA FAO (COMM) 106/2025 Page 1 of 8 LAKSHMI DOBHAL Signing Date:09.05.2025 16:59:32 No. 52/2023 titled as GMTD BSNL, Hisar Haryana Vs. Suresh Kumar Security Agency, dismissing the said OMP, that is, the petition under Section 34 of the Act filed by the appellant herein. 5. To give a brief background of the facts of the present appeal, the respondent, by way of two separate agreements dated 21.05.2018, was appointed to provide security services to the appellant in its telecom installations, stores, and cash counters of Hisar, Sirsa, and Fatehabad. The said contracts were terminated by the appellant vide letter dated 05.11.2018. The respondent invoked the arbitration proceedings, alleging therein that the dues of month