Supreme Court of India

Ace Pipeline Contracts Private Limited v. Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited

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Reported as [2007] 4 S.C.R. 777

Bench Ak Ma Thur and Tar Un Chatterjee JJ.

Decided 4 April 2007

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What the Court ordered

We find no reason to interfere with the order passed by the learned Single Judge of the High Court of'Delhi in Arbitration Petition No.181 of2005.

Judgment, page 14

From the headnote

Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996: ss.11 & 34-Appointment of Arbitrator-Courts can issue mandamus to c authorities to appoint arbitrators as per the arbitration clause-But choice can go beyond the designated persons or institutions in exceptional cases for reasons to be recorded or where both parties agree for common name- Once a party has entered into an agreement with eyes wide open it cannot plead that if any person nominated in the arbitration clause is appointed as arbitrator he will not be impartial or objective-However, if a party feels that the arbitrator has not acted

Where later benches applied it

2018 Sp Singla Constructions Pvt. Ltd. v. State of Himachal Pradesh and Another relied on
2014 North Eastern Railway & Ors. v. Tripple Engineering Works relied on
2024 Central Organisation for Railway Electrification v. M/s Eci Spic Smo Mcml (jv) A Joint Venture Company referred to
2022 Ellora Paper Mills Limited v. The State of Madhya Pradesh referred to
2017 Aravali Power Company Pvt. Ltd. v. Mis. Era Infra Engineering Ltd. referred to
2012 Denel (proprietary Limited) v. Govt. of India, Ministry of Defence referred to

Of those, 2 relied on · 4 referred to

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