- 1 - NC: 2025:KHC:5698 WP No. 35807 of 2024 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BENGALURU DATED THIS THE 7TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 2025 BEFORE THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE R DEVDAS WRIT PETITION NO. 35807 OF 2024 (GM-RES) BETWEEN: M/S SHREE MAROLI VIBHAG KHAND UDHYOG SAHAKARI MANDLI LTD HAVING ADDRESS AT KOLASANA (KALYAN NAGAR) PO MAROLI BAZAR - 396436 TAL. JALAPORE DIST. NAVSARI GUJRAT REPRESENTED BY ITS MANAGING DIRECTOR MR. PRAKASHCHANDRA MANILAL NAIK AGED ABOUT 71 YEARS, …PETITIONER (BY SRI. NISCHAL DEV B R., ADVOCATE) AND: M/S VRL AUTOMATION ENGINEERING AND PROJECT PVT LTD HAVING ITS REGISTERED OFFICE AT A-170, 4TH CROSS, 1ST STAGE, PEENYA INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, BENGALURU - 560058 …RESPONDENT (BY SRI. N GOWTHAM RAGHUNATH., ADVOCATE) Digitally signed by KRISHNAPPA LAXMI YASHODA Location: HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA - 2 - NC: 2025:KHC:5698 WP No. 35807 of 2024 THIS WRIT PETITION IS FILED UNDER ARTICLES 226 & 227 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA PRAYING TO ISSUE A WRIT OF CERTIORARI OR ANY OTHER WRIT OF LIKE NATURE QUASHING THE ORDER DATED 03.12.2024 (ANNEXURE a) PASSED BY THE HONBLE SOLE ARBITRATOR IN AC NO. 66/2024 AND ISSUE A WRIT OF CERTIORARI OR ANY OTHER ORDER WRIT OF LIKE NATURE QUASHING THE ORDER DATED 04.12.2024 ( ANNESURE B) PASSED BY THE HONBLE SOLE ARBITRATOR IN AC NO. 66/2024 AND ETC. THIS PETITION, COMING ON FOR ORDERS, THIS DAY, ORDER WAS MADE THEREIN AS UNDER: CORAM: HON'BLE MR JUSTICE R DEVDAS ORAL ORDER Learned Counsel for the respondent has filed an Affidavit stating that the prayer made in the writ petition has become infructuous, since an Award has been passed by the Arbitral Tribunal on 08.01.2025. 2. The petitioner is seeking to raise a challenge to the interim order dated 03.12.2024 passed by the Arbitral Tribunal on the application filed by the petitioner in the matter of payment of fee to the Arbitrator. - 3 - NC: 2025:KHC:5698 WP No. 35807 of 2024 3. Learned Counsel for the respondent is therefore right in his submission that the prayer made in the writ petition has become infructuous. 4. Accordingly, the writ petition stands dismissed. Sd/- (R DEVDAS) JUDGE DL CT: JL