Supreme Court of India

Markfed Vanaspati & Allied Industries v. Union of India

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Reported as [2007] 9 S.C.R. 957
Bench Tarun Chatterjee J.
Decided 14 September 2007

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Contract-Non-performance of-Invoking of force majeure clause in agreement-Under a contract for supply of rapeseed oil, supplier failed to supply the specified quantity of oil-Plea of ban by Government on use and processing of rapeseed oil by manufacturers-Held, High Court was right in holding that on facts force majeure clause could not be attracted since the ban covered use of rapeseed oil for manufacturing Vanaspati, and manufacturing rapeseed oil was not banned or restricted-Arbitration. Arbitration-Non-speaking award by arbitrator-Court cannot probe into mental process of arbitrator-Court

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