IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
CIVIL APPEAL NO. 10531 OF 2014
(ARISING OUT OF SLP (CIVIL) NO.14767 OF 2012)
Associate Builders …Appellant
Versus
Delhi Development Authority …Respondent
The appellant herein was awarded a certain construction work contract by the DDA vide a letter of award dated 14th May, 1992. DDA was building a colony consisting of 7,000 houses in Trilok Puri in the trans-Yamuna area. 168Middle Income Group houses and 56 Lower Income Group houses, Grade-A Pocket- B (balance work) was awarded for the tendered amount ofRs.87,66,678/-. The contract was to be completed in 9 months. Admittedly, it was ultimately completed only in 34 months, the contractor completing 166Middle Income Group houses and 36 Lower Income Group houses. The total value of work that was done amounted to Rs.62,84,845/-. As many as 15 claims were made by the contractor and the High Court of Delhi appointed one Shri K.D. Bali to arbitrate the present dispute. We are concerned here with claims 9, 10, 11 and 15, for these claim shave been allowed by the Arbitrator and the DDA’s objections have been dismissed by the learned Single Judge of the High Court of Delhi. The Division Bench in an appeal under Section 37 of the Arbitration Act, 1996 has stepped in to set aside the judgment of the Single Judge and negative these claims. We are also concerned with claims 12 and 13 which have been scaled down by the Division Bench….read more