NHAI Vs. Jagdish OMP(M) No.104 of 2025 01.09.2025 Present: Mr. Sumeet Raj Sharma, Advocate, for the applicant/appellant. Mr. Dhiraj Thakur, Advocate, for the non- applicant/respondent. Reply to the application has not been filed by the non-applicant/respondent. Learned counsel for the non-applicant submits that no reply is intended to be filed. 2. Heard and gone through the application. 3. The application gives out sufficient reasons for condoning the delay in instituting the main appeal. Accordingly, the same is allowed. Delay in instituting the main appeal is condoned. Application to stand disposed of. Arb. Appeal No._____ of 2025 4. List for consideration after five weeks. OMP No.______ of 2025 5. Subject to deposit of entire awarded amount alongwith up to date interest in the Registry of this Court within a period of four weeks, operation and execution of impugned judgment dated 01.08.2024 passed by the learned District Judge Mandi, H.P. in Arbitration Case No.170 of 2023 (NHAI Vs. Jagdish), shall remain stayed. Parties are, however, at liberty to seek modification/alteration of the order. The application stands disposed of. OMP No. 692 of 2025 6. Disposed of as having been rendered infrucutous. Jyotsna Rewal Dua September 1, 2025 Judge (R.Atal)