Supreme Court of India

Alka Chandewar v. Shamshul Ishrar Khan

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Reported as [2017] 6 S.C.R. 533
Bench R. F. Nariman and Sanjay Kishan Kaul JJ.
Decided 6 July 2017

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What the Court ordered

Accordingly, we allow the appeal and set aside the judgment of the Bombay High Court.

Judgment, page 10

From the headnote

Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 - ss. 2 7 (5) and 17 (2) - Courts power to punish for contempt of orders made by Arbitral tribunal - Scope and ambit of - Held: Section 27(5) specifically states that persons guilty of any contempt to the arbitral tribunal during the conduct of the arbitral proceedings is within its ken - Entire object of providing that a party may approach the arbitral tribunal instead of the Court for interim reliefs would be stultified if interim orders passed by such tribunal are toothless - It is to give teeth to such orders that an express provision is made in s.

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 referred to

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