New Delhi: A city court on Friday (November 29) stayed the attachment of Rajasthan’s Nokha municipal council-owned Bikaner House, which is located in Delhi’s prime locality, and directed the civic agency to pay an arbitral award of Rs 50.31 lakh that it owes to a company within a week.
District Judge Vidya Prakash granted a conditional stay on the attachment of the Bikaner House, subject to depositing an FDR before the court within a week.
What did court note while staying attachment order?
The court, while staying the attachment order, noted that the 2020 arbitral award in favour of Enviro Infra Engineers Private Limited had attained finality after an appeal filed by the Nokha municipal council was dismissed in 2024 earlier.
The matter now has been posted for hearing on January 7, 2025, news agency PTI reported.
Court order came on a plea seeking enforcement of arbitral award
The court earlier on September 18, while noting the non-compliance of the directions of the court, had ordered the attachment of the Bikaner Hose. The order of the court came on a plea that sought enforcement of the arbitral award passed by an arbitral tribunal on January 21, 2020.
“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 had said in September 18 order.
Himachal Pradesh High Court recently ordered attachment of Himachal Bhavan in Delhi
The Himachal Pradesh High Court had recently ordered for the attachment of Himachal Bhavan, which is located in central Delhi’s Mandi House area, for its failure to pay a dues of Rs 64 crore to a power firm, Seli Hydropower Electrical Company and had said that gthe power firm may take appropriate steps to auction the Himachal Bhavan in Delhi for the recovery of the upfront premium with the interest.
