New Delhi: A city court has directed attachment of Rajasthan’s Nokha municipal council-owned Bikaner House, located in Delhi’s prime locality, after the municipal body failed to pay arbitral award of Rs 50.31 lakh to a company.
District Judge Vidya Prakash restrained court restrained the Nokha municipal council from transferring or charging the Bikaner House sale, gift or otherwise and has directed the representative of the municipal agency to appear before the court on the next day of hearing into the matter on November 29.
Court order came on a plea seeking enforcement of arbitral award
The judge, while passing the order on a plea seeking enforcement of the arbitral award that was passed by arbitral tribunal on January 21, 2020, noted that 2020 arbitral award passed in favour of Enviro Infra Engineers Private Limited has attained finality after an appeal of the Nokha municipal council was dismissed earlier this year.
Judge noted non-compliance of the court’s directions
The judge, in an order passed on September 18, had noted the non-compliance of the court’s directions.
“Keeping in view the fact that the Judgement Debtor (JD) had failed to comply with the direction for furnishing affidavit of their assets despite grant of repeated opportunities, the court, while agreeing with the submissions made on behalf of Decree Holder (DH), finds it a fit case for issuance of warrants of attachment against immovable property of JD namely Bikaner House, New Delhi,” the judge said, news agency PTI reported.
Himachal Pradesh High Court recently ordered attachment of Himachal Bhavan in Delhi
Recently, the Himachal Pradesh High Court had ordered for the attachment of Himachal Bhavan, which is located in Delhi’s Mandi House area, for its failure to pay a dues of Rs 64 crore to a power firm, Seli Hydropower Electrical Company.
The High Court had said that Seli Hydropower Electrical Company may take appropriate steps to auction the Himachal Bhavan for the recovery of the upfront premium with the interest. The matter had reached the High Court after the Himachal Pradesh government did not comply with arbitrator’s order ruled in the favour of the power firm and asking the state government to deposit the upfront premium with interest.
