Qatar Holding Moves Karnataka HC To Enforce SGD 7.2 Million SIAC Award Against Byju Raveendran

Qatar Holding LLC has moved the Karnataka High Court seeking enforcement of a SGD 7.2 million (₹53.2 Crore) arbitral award passed under the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) Rules against Byju Raveendran and Byju's Investments Pte. Ltd. (BIPL).The present proceedings are Qatar Holding's second plea before the Karnataka High Court arising from the arbitration. The earlier plea concerned the Partial Final Award dated July 14, 2025, while the present petition seeks enforcement of...

Delhi High Court Upholds Award Setting Aside ₹8.55 Crore DoT Demand Against Sterlite Technologies

The Delhi High Court has upheld an arbitral award in favour of Sterlite Technologies Limited, rejecting the Union government's challenge to an award that had set aside a ₹8.55 crore demand raised by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT).Justice Avneesh Jhingan ruled that the arbitrator's finding that Sterlite provided only passive telecom infrastructure, rather than unlicensed end-to-end bandwidth services. This, according to the court, was a plausible view that did not warrant interference...

Bombay High Court Refuses EV Licensees Interim Relief In Arbitration Over Mumbai Airport Charging Stations

The Bombay High Court has refused to allow three EV charging station licence holders to restart their projects on Airports Authority of India (AAI) land in Mumbai, holding that such relief could effectively restore performance under license agreements that AAI had sought to terminate.Justice Amit Borkar observed that the interim reliefs sought under the Arbitration Act were mandatory in nature to a considerable extent and went beyond merely preserving the existing position. “Petitioners do not...

Telangana High Court Allows Retired Partner To Invoke Arbitration Clause In Reconstitution Of Partnership Deed

The Telangana High Court has held that a retired partner could invoke an arbitration clause in a Reconstitution of a partnership deed (retirement deed) because the clause covered disputes between the parties and did not limit arbitration to existing partners.Referring to Article 12 of the deed, Justice K. Lakshman ruled, “The arbitration clause clearly specifies that the disputes arising between the parties shall be referred to arbitration. It is nowhere stated that disputes between existing...

CPC Applies To Court Proceedings Arising From Arbitration Unless Excluded: Patna High Court

The Patna High Court on 6 August held that while the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (CPC) does not bind arbitral tribunals, it applies to court proceedings arising from an arbitral award unless expressly excluded. A Division Bench comprising Justices Rajeev Ranjan Prasad and Ramesh Chand Malviya set aside a Commercial Court order dismissing the Bihar State Warehousing Corporation's challenge to a Rs. 5.99 crore arbitral award after it cured a Rs. 245 court fee deficit 62 days beyond the...

Supreme Court Stays Bombay High Court Order Directing CDSL To Pay ₹86.02 Lakh To Investor

On 7 August, the Supreme Court stayed the operation of a Bombay High Court order that had upheld an arbitral award directing Central Depository Services (India) Limited (CDSL) to pay Rs. 86.02 lakh with interest to investor Daksha Narendra Bhavsar for losses arising from the transfer and pledge of her demat shares by BRH Wealth Kreators Limited. A Division Bench comprising Justices J.B. Pardiwala and K. Vinod Chandran issued notice on CDSL's Special Leave Petition, returnable on 10 September...

Officers Representing Union Of India Cannot Independently Challenge Award: Chhattisgarh High Court

The Chhattisgarh High Court on 10 August held that officers or representatives appearing for the Union of India in arbitral proceedings cannot independently challenge an arbitral award under Section 34 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, merely because they represented the Union during the proceedings. A Division Bench of Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Ravindra Kumar Agrawal dismissed an appeal filed by officers of the South East Central Railway, holding that where an...

Supreme Court Upholds Interim Relief To Unsuccessful Arbitration Party In 'Rare, Compelling' Case

The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld interim relief granted to an unsuccessful party in arbitration, finding that it had met the higher threshold required for post-award relief under Section 9 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996.A bench of Justice K.V. Viswanathan and Justice Alok Aradhe upheld a Delhi High Court order directing National Projects Construction Corporation Ltd. (NPCC) to deposit ₹3.5 crore, which it had realised by invoking bank guarantees furnished by Ishvakoo (India)...

Russia Appoints Former CJI D.Y. Chandrachud As Arbitrator In Investment Treaty Dispute With Ukrainian Bank

Former Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud has been appointed by Russia as its arbitrator in a new investment treaty dispute brought by Ukrainian state-owned bank Oschadbank over assets and operations it says it lost in south-eastern Ukraine.According to a report published by Global Arbitration Review (GAR) on August 7, 2026, the dispute will be heard by a three-member tribunal under the 1998 Ukraine-Russia bilateral investment treaty. The tribunal will be presided over by Costa Rican...

Employee Named Arbitrator Pre-2015 Ineligible If Arbitration Had Not Yet Commenced: Tripura High Court

On 10 August, the Tripura High Court held that an employee or officer named as an arbitrator in an agreement executed before 23 October 2015 becomes ineligible to act as arbitrator if arbitration had not commenced before the 2015 amendment to the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996. Chief Justice M.S. Ramachandra Rao allowed Kashinath Bhattacharjee's arbitration petition in a dispute under a Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) tender agreement and rejected BSNL's attempt to appoint its...

Madras High Court Reduces Vedanta's Pre-Arbitration Interest From 14% To 9% In Masyc Projects Dispute

The Madras High Court on 31 July partly allowed Vedanta Limited's appeal arising from its dispute over the design, manufacture, supply and commissioning of a conveyor system for a copper concentrate warehouse at Tuticorin, while substantially upholding the arbitral award in favour of Masyc Projects Pvt. Ltd.A Division Bench of Justices P. Velmurugan and K. Govindarajan Thilakavadi held that interest awarded for the pre-arbitration and pendente lite periods must be commensurate with the...

Arbitrator Cannot Disregard Agreement To Treat WhatsApp Exchanges As Concluded Contract: Bombay High Court

The Bombay High Court has held that an arbitrator cannot disregard the terms of the contract under which a dispute was referred to arbitration and treat WhatsApp exchanges as a separate concluded agreement when that was never the pleaded case.Justice Sharmila U. Deshmukh partly set aside an arbitral award in a family partnership dispute involving a husband, his wife, and other family members. The court quashed the direction to pay 9% annual interest on a ₹5 crore loan, which the arbitrator had...