Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 296 · Decided 21 February 2025
Rahul Verma & ORS. v. Rampat Lal Verma & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 296 · [2025] 2 S.C.R. 1713
- Case number
- SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) No. 4330/2025
- Decided
- 21 February 2025
- Bench
- J.B. PARDIWALA, R MAHADEVAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution; Arbitration Act Section 37(1)(a)
Headnote
Issue arose whether the legal heirs of a deceased partner in a partnership firm, being non-signatories to the partnership deed and in the absence of their explicit consent, can still be bound by the arbitration agreement; and whether the right to sue for the rendition to the legal heirs of the deceased partner, entitling them to invoke the arbitration clause in the partnership deed. Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 - Arbitration agreement - Invocation of the arbitration clause in the partnership deed, by the legal heirs of a
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