Supreme Court · 2016 INSC 948 · Decided 4 October 2016
A. Ayyasamy v. A. Paramasivam & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2016 INSC 948 · [2016] 11 S.C.R. 521
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 8245/2016
- Decided
- 4 October 2016
- Bench
- A.K. SIKRI, D.Y. CHANDRACHUD (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Arbitration Act Section 8
Headnote
Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996: s. 8 - Application under - Qziestioning the maintainability of the suit on the ground that the parties had agreed to settle the dispute through arbitration - Application dismissed holding that suit was maintainable as the case involved serious allegations as affirmed by High Court - On appeal, held: The cases where there are serious allegations of fraud that in normal course constitute criminal offence, and are complex in nature demanding extensive evidence, are to be treated as non-arbitrable and civil court should decide the matter - However,
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