Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 483 · Decided 27 April 2022
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation LTD. v. M/S Discovery Enterprises PVT. LTD. & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 483 · [2022] 4 S.C.R. 926
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2042/2022
- Decided
- 27 April 2022
- Bench
- D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, SURYA KANT, VIKRAM NATH (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Arbitration Act Section 37
Headnote
Arbitration - Group of companies doctrine - Invocation of - Held: An arbitration agreement entered into by a company within a group of companies, can bind its non-signatory affiliates circumstances demonstrate a mutual intention of the parties to bind both the signatory and affiliated, non-signatory parties - A non-signatory may be bound by the arbitration agreement where: (i) there exists a group of companies; and (ii) parties have engaged in conduct or made statements
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