Supreme Court · 1999 INSC 375 · Decided 1 September 1999
Steel Authority of India LTD. v. J.C. Budharaja, Government and Mining Contractor
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1999 INSC 375 · [1999] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 155
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 507/1992
- Decided
- 1 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; Limitation Act Section 137, 3, 13
Headnote
B Arbitration Act, 1940: Section 30. Misconduct-Jurisdictional error-Contract stipulated that no claim would be tenable for delay in handing over the work site-Contract only C provided extension of time for completion in case of such delay-Despite such prohibition, award given for losses due to within the limits of the agreement and cannot exceed his jurisdiction-Whether or not the arbitrator has so functioned would be a jurisdictional fact and required to be gone into by the court- D Arbitrator may have jurisdiction to entertain a claim but does not have jurisdiction to pass award in
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