Supreme Court of India

State of West Bengal v. National Builders

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Reported as [1993] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 251
Bench S.R. Pandian, R.M. Sahai and A.S. Anand JJ.
Decided 13 October 1993

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Arbitration Act 1940-Section 8( 1)-'Refuse/ to act-Meaning of-Held refusal of' an arbitrator to resign while not accepting the joint request of the parties to extend time for arbitration and leave it to them to decide their future course of action amounts to refusal to act by the Arbitrator. Statutory duty of court's power to inteifere and appoint an Arbitrator comes into operation if the Arbitrator refuses to act and the agreement does not show that the parties did not intend that the vacancy should not be supplied. dispute arose between the respondent-contractor and th'! appel­ lant-state

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