High Courts
Delhi High Court Upholds ₹2.57 Crore Award Against AAI In Mangalore Airport Control Tower Construction Delay Case
The Delhi High Court has recently dismissed a challenge by the Airports Authority of India (AAI) and upheld an arbitral award directing it to pay Rs. 2.57 Crore with interest and Rs 7 lakh as costs to URC Construction (P) Ltd. The Court held that the 477-day delay in constructing a new control tower-cum-technical block at Mangalore International Airport was attributable to AAI. The award grants interest at 10% per annum from September 4, 2017, till the date of the award, and further 10% from...
Delhi High Court Holds Breach of Settlement Not Contempt In Siemens‑DAMEPL Arbitration
The Delhi High Court has held that contempt proceedings cannot be initiated if the judgment debtor defaults, when there is a settlement agreement between parties specifying the consequences of non-payment. A Bench of Justice Sachin Datta were hearing a case between Siemens Limited and Siemens Aktiengesellschaft (“Siemens”), the decree holders, and Delhi Airport Metro Express Private Limited (“DAMEPL”), the judgment debtor, arising from an arbitral award which partly allowed Siemens' claims. ...
Delhi High Court Dismisses Cross-Petitions In FHEL-GAPL Arbitration, Confirms Damages & Rental Awards
The Delhi High Court on 11 February upheld an arbitral award directing Fresh and Healthy Enterprises Ltd (FHEL) to pay over Rs. 80 lakh in damages to Global AgriSystem Pvt Ltd (GAPL) for failure to maintain agreed storage conditions, while also confirming FHEL's entitlement to over Rs. 87 lakh towards rental and handling charges. A Single Bench of Justice Jasmeet Singh dismissed cross-petitions filed by both companies, while reiterated that courts exercising jurisdiction under Section 34 of...
Housing Society Bound By Arbitration Clause In Individual Sale Agreements: Bombay High Court
On 10 February, the Bombay High Court held that a co-operative housing society, although a distinct legal entity, is a “veritable party” to the agreements signed by its individual members and is therefore bound by the arbitration clauses embedded within them. The Single Bench of Justice Somasekhar Sundaresan, emphasised that when a society is formed specifically to represent the collective interests of homebuyers, it inherits the obligations of arbitration contained in the individual sale...
Executing Court Cannot Impose Onerous Conditions For Release Of Arbitral Award Without Stay: Punjab & Haryana High Court
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has set aside a condition imposed by an executing court that required an award-holder to furnish a bank guarantee to obtain release of an arbitral award amount. The court held that no such condition can be imposed by the executing court in the absence of any interim stay. A bench of Justice Jasgurpreet Singh Puri held that once objections to an arbitral award are dismissed and no interim order is granted in appeal, the executing court is bound to execute the...
No Appeal Lies Against Conditional Stay Of Arbitral Award: Calcutta High Court
The Calcutta High Court has recently held that an appeal does not lie against an order granting conditional stay of an arbitral award, observing that such orders fall outside the narrow appellate framework prescribed under arbitration Act. Section 36(2) of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, allows a party that has challenged an arbitral award in court to seek a stay on the enforcement of that award. A Division Bench of Justice Debangsu Basak and Justice Md. Shabbar Rashidi dismissed...
Limitation To Challenge Arbitral Award Starts On Postal Delivery To Party Not Email To Lawyer: Patna High Court
The Patna High Court has recently ruled that the limitation period to challenge an arbitral award starts only when the party itself receives a signed copy of the award by registered post, and not when a signed copy is merely received on the email of the party's lawyer. "Thus, a conjoint reading of sub-section (5) of Section 31 and sub-section (3) of Section 34 would make it clear that the reckoning point for computation of the period of limitation is the date on which the party making the...
LiveLawBiz Arbitration Weekly Round-Up: February 02 - February 08, 2026
NOMINAL INDEX Rajia Begum vs Barnali Mukherjee, 2026 LLBiz SC 36C Velusamy v K Indhera, 2026 LLBiz SC 39Eminent Colonizers Private Limited v Rajasthan Housing Board & Ors, 2026 LLBiz SC 48A2Z Infraservices Ltd and Anr v Quippo Infrastructure Ltd and Anr, 2026 LLBiz SC 42Avneet Soni v Kavita Agarwal, 2026 LLBiz HC (DEL) 108Union of India v Reliance Industries Ltd & Anr, 2026 LLBiz HC (DEL) 11Puri Constructions Pvt Ltd & Ors v Larsen & Toubro Ltd, 2026 LLBiz HC (DEL) 119Dusters...
Arbitral Award Not Invalid Though High Court Appointed Arbitrator Instead Of Supreme Court In ICA: Delhi High Court
The Delhi High Court has refused to set aside a 2012 arbitral award after a shareholder argued that the arbitrator was wrongly appointed by the High Court instead of the Supreme Court in an international commercial arbitration. Rejecting the challenge, the court held that the Arbitration and Conciliation Act does not permit annulment of an award merely because of a dispute over which court appointed the arbitrator. "Section 34(2)(a)(v) does not contemplate the setting aside of an arbitral...
Arbitration Cases Monthly Digest: January 2026
SUPREME COURTAppellate Courts Cannot Disturb Arbitral Awards Merely To Permit A Different View, Supreme Court Reiterates Case Title : Jan De Nul Dredging India Pvt. Ltd. v. Tuticorin Port Trust Case Number : Civil Appeal No. 98 of 2026 Citation: 2026 LLBiz SC 15 The Supreme Court, recently, set aside a Madras High Court order that had deleted compensation awarded to a dredging contractor and reiterated that appellate courts cannot interfere with arbitral awards merely because they prefer a...
Non-Signatory Successor Company May Invoke Arbitration Clause After Merger: Calcutta High Court
The Calcutta High Court has recently held that a company that becomes the successor of an original contracting party pursuant to an NCLT-approved merger can invoke an arbitration clause even if it is not a signatory to the original agreement. Justice Shampa Sarkar made the observation on February 3 while hearing an application filed by Tata Capital Limited seeking appointment of an arbitrator in a dispute arising out of a loan agreement with a borrower. “In my prima facie view, even if the...