GL LITMUS EVENTS PVT. LTD vs DELHI DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY

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$~J * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Judgment reserved on: 30.05.2025 Judgment pronounced on: 01.09.2025 + O.M.P. (COMM) 189/2018 & I.A. 47338/2024 GL LITMUS EVENTS PVT. LTD. ……….Petitioner Through: Mr. P.V. Kapur, Sr. Adv. with Mr. Vijay M. Phadke, Ms. Manali Singhal, Mr. Santosh Sachin, Mr. Deepak Singh Rawat, Advs. versus DELHI DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY ………Respondent Through: Mr. Ramesh Singh, Sr. Adv. with Ms. Shobhana Takiar, SC with Ms. Chand Chopra, Ms. Neha Bhupathiraju, Ms. Mage Nanya, Mr. Kuljeet Singh, Advs. CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE JASMEET SINGH JUDGMENT 1. The present petition is filed under section 34 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (“1996 Act”) assailing the Arbitral Award Digitally Signed O.M.P. (COMM) 189/2018 Page 1 of 32 By:MAYANK Signing Date:01.09.2025 17:17:04 dated 27.11.2017 passed by the learned Sole Arbitrator wherein all the 16 claims raised by the petitioner were rejected. FACTUAL BACKGROUND 2. M/s GL Event Services and M/s Meroform (India) Pvt. Ltd. formed a consortium and signed a Consortium Agreement dated 19.05.2009 to bid for a tender related to the Commonwealth Games 2010, which were scheduled to be held in Delhi in October, 2010.The consortium formed a Joint Venture Company namely GL Litmus Events Pvt. Ltd. i.e. the petitioner, in pursuance of Clause 1 of Annexure - A of the Consortium Agreement. 3. The responsibility of organizing the Commonwealth Games Projects for Design Built Maintenance and Rental Contract for Temporary Accommodation using Tensile Fabric at Commonwealth Games Village was assigned to the respondent. Pursuant to this, the respondents invited applications for short-listing suitable organization/companies for providing Games Overlays/ temporary fitments on Turnkey basis and for executing works und