Supreme Court of India

M/s. M.K. Shah Engineers and Contractors v. State of Madhya Pradesh

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Reported as [1999] 1 S.C.R. 419
Bench Sujata V. Manohar and R.C. Lahoti JJ.
Decided 5 February 1999

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What the Court ordered

For the foregoing reasons,-we are of the opinion that the trial court and the High Court were not justified in setting aside the awards and remitting them back for decision afresh by the arbitrator on the ground of non-compliance with the earlier part of clause 3.3.

Judgment, page 18

From the headnote

Ji" Arbitration Act 1940 : Section 33-Arbitration clause in agreement prescribing decision by Superintending Engineer on dispute between parties as condition prece- c dent-Dispute arising between the parties-Reference of dispute to ar- bitrato,..-f'reliminary objection by one party regarding maintainability of arbitration proceedings as condition precedent for invoking arbitration clause not satisfied-Party raising preliminary objection responsible for fmstration of condition precedent prescribed in arbitration clause-Held, preliminary objec- tion not maintainable as no one can be pennitted

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 1 referred to

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