Supreme Court · 2003 INSC 648 · Decided 19 November 2003
Union of India and ANR. v. M/S. Sohan Lal Puglia
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2003 INSC 648 · [2003] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 832
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5377/1998
- Decided
- 19 November 2003
- Bench
- V.N. KHARE, S.B. SINHA, AR. LAKSHMANAN (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Arbitration Act Section 20(4), 20
Headnote
Arbitration Act, 1940: S.20(4)-Contract-Arbitration clause of the agreement providing for C parties to appoint Gazetted Officers as arbitrators-Contractor invoking arbitration clause of the agreement-Department not appointing any arbitrator-Contractor filing an application uls.20 before District that when it did not refuse to appoint arbitrator, application ul D s.20 was not maintainable-Held, District Judge ought to have directed the parties to appoint arbitrators in terms of arbitration agreement-Parties directed to appoint arbitrators in consonance with the arbitration clause
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