Supreme Court · 1999 INSC 425 · Decided 20 September 1999
Rajasthan State Mines and Minerals LTD. v. Eastern Engineering Enterprises and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1999 INSC 425 · [1999] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 710
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1202/1992
- Decided
- 20 September 1999
- Bench
- D.P. WADHWA, M.B. SHAH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Arbitration Act Section 30, 33
Headnote
Arbitration Act, 1940: Ss. 30 and 33. Jurisdiction of Arbitrator-Determination of-Works contract- C Agreement clauses stipulating fzxed payment-Claim for additional payments and compensation-Dispute-Arbitration-Arbitrator appointed solely on the basis of agreement between the parties-Arbitrator arbitrator has travelled beyond his jurisdiction by passing an award against the stipulations and prohibitions D contained in the contract-Arbitrator cannot act arbitrarily, irrationally, capriciously or independently of the contract-Deliberate departure or conscious disregard of the contract
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