Supreme Court · 2021 INSC 344 · Decided 20 July 2021
The Project Director, National Highways NO. 45 E and 220 National Highways Authority of India v. M. Hakeem & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2021 INSC 344 · [2021] 5 S.C.R. 368
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2756/2021
- Decided
- 20 July 2021
- Bench
- R.F. NARIMAN, BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Arbitration Act Section 34, 15, 16; Specific Relief Act Section 20A; Land Acquisition Act Section 5A, 6
Headnote
Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996: s.34 - Modification of award by court, permissibility - Held: Power of a court under s.34 of the Act, 1996 to "set aside" an award of an the power to modify such an award - To state that the judicial trend appears to favour an interpretation that would read into s.34 a power to modify, revise or vary the award would be to ignore the previous law contained in the 1940 Act; as also to ignore the fact that the 1996 Act was
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