Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 1286 · Decided 7 December 2009
M/S. Madnani Construction Corporation (P) LTD v. Union of India & Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 1286 · [2009] 16 S.C.R. 216
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 8385/2004
- Decided
- 7 December 2009
- Bench
- MARKANDEY KATJU, A.K. GANGULY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Arbitration Act Section 20, 29
Headnote
Arbitration Act, 1940: c Arbitration award - Scope of interference - Held: When arbitrator on the basis of record and materials placed before him arrives at specific findings which are not stigmatized as perverse by High Court, then High Court in reaching its ignore those findings. s. 29 - Interest -Award of interest by arbitrator- Interfered by High Court - On facts, held: Arbitration agreement did not contain prohibition on arbitrator to entertain claim for interest E on the amounts due under the contract - High Court erred in interfering with the
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