Supreme Court · 2021 INSC 498 · Decided 20 September 2021
M/S Laxmi Continental Construction CO. v. State of U.P. & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2021 INSC 498 · [2021] 6 S.C.R. 208
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 6797/2008
- Decided
- 20 September 2021
- Bench
- M.R. SHAH, A.S. BOPANNA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Arbitration Act Section 28, 30, 33
Headnote
Arbitration - Agreement between appellant and respondent- State - Appointment of an officer of the State department, as arbitrator in terms of arbitration clause in the agreement - Whether his mandate to continue the arbitration proceedings came to an end on Whether continuance of arbitration proceedings by him after retirement can be said to be a misconduct - Held: Considering the arbitration clause in the agreement, once a departmental officer was appointed as an arbitrator, he continued to be the sole arbitrator till the arbitration
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