Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 53 · Decided 22 January 2010
Bharat Sanchar Nigam LTD. v. Telephone Cables LTD.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 53 · [2010] 3 S.C.R. 291
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 868/2010
- Decided
- 22 January 2010
- Bench
- R.V. RAVEENDRAN, K.S. RADHAKRISHNAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Arbitration Act Section 7, 11
Headnote
Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996: ss. 7 and 11 - Government contracts - Tender - Allegation of arbitrariness A B in tender process - Aggrieved bidder filed application for C referring matter to arbitration - Held: On facts, documents show that arbitration clause was applicable only to order and not in regard to any dispute to the tender or bid or non-placing of purchase order - Thus, arbitration clause did not exist in regard to tender D stage dispute or pre-contract differences, at a stage when there was no privily of contract - Since a purchase order was not placed, there
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