Supreme Court of India

State of Orissa v. B.N. Agarwalla

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Reported as [1997] 1 S.C.R. 704

Decided 29 January 1997

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Arbitration Act, 1940: Section 29. Interest-Award of-Pre-reference period i.e., for the period commenc- e ing from the date of dispute till the date arbitrator entered upon refer ence-Held: Arbitrator had jurisdiction to award Interest in cases which arose after the Interest Act, 1978 came into force i.e., after 19-8-1981-ln regard to cases pertaining to pe1iod prior to applicability of Interest Act, in absence of any substantive law, contract or usage, arbitrator had no jurisdiction to award interest-Decision in Abhaduta Jena's case 011 this aspect not overruled in . .Roy's case-Stipulation

Authorities it was built on

1955 Seth Thawardas Pherumal v. The Union of India cited by 29
1992 Jugal Kishore Prabhatilal Sharma and Ors. v. Vijayendra Prabhatilal Sharma and Anr. cited by 6

Where later benches applied it

2012 Tehri Hydro Dev. Corpn. Ltd.& Anr. v. Jai Prakash Asso. Ltd. relied on
2016 Union of India v. M/s. Amblca Construction referred to

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