Supreme Court · 2018 INSC 1158 · Decided 5 December 2018
M/S Simplex Infrastructure LTD v. Union of India
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2018 INSC 1158 · [2018] 14 S.C.R. 676
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 11866/2018
- Decided
- 5 December 2018
- Bench
- D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, VINEET SARAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Arbitration Act Section 34; Limitation Act Section 5, 14
Headnote
Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996: s. 34 - Application under - Delay of 514 days in filing - Condonation of delay - If permissible - Held: By virtue of s. 34(3), recourse to the court against an arbitral award cannot prescribed therein i.e. three months - The proviso thereto allows this period to be further extended by another period of thirty days on sufficient cause being shown - The words 'but not thereafter" in the proviso makes the legislative intent clear that statutory period of
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