The petitioners, partners of the Chartered Accountancy firm Mukunda Shiva and Associates, challenged an order of the Commercial Court, Bengaluru, passed in proceedings under Section 9 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, after respondent No. 1 issued a dissolution notice dated 12.09.2026 claiming the partnership was one at will under Section 43 of the Indian Partnership Act, 1932, which led to a debit freeze on the firm's bank accounts. The petitioners argued that whether the partnership was truly one at will, or whether the matter was one of retirement, were arbitrable disputes to be decided by the Arbitral Tribunal, and that the freeze was causing serious harm to over 185 employees and to clients with imminent statutory obligations such as income-tax return filings and GST compliances. The Karnataka High Court, considering the interests of all parties and noting that Clause 36 of the partnership deed referred all disputes—including those relating to dissolution—to arbitration, examined whether interim protection was warranted pending adjudication of the Section 9 applications. The Court found that the partner dispute should not be allowed to cause irreversible professional consequences to clients or employees while the larger questions remained unadjudicated.