Supreme Court of India
M/s Simplex Infrastructure Ltd v. Union of India
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We are of the considered opinion that in view of the period of limitation prescribed in Section 34(3), the learned Single Judge of the High Court was not justified in condoning the respondent’s delay of 514 days in filing the application.
Judgment, page 13
From the headnote
Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996: s. 34 – Application under – Delay of 514 days in fi ling – Condonation of delay – If permissible – Held: By virtue of s. 34(3), recourse to the court against an arbitral award canno t be beyond the period prescribed therein i.e. three months – The proviso t hereto allows this period to be further extended by another period of t hirty days on sufficient cause being shown – The words ‘b ut not thereafter” in the proviso makes the legislative in tent clear that statutory period of three months is extendable by another perio d of upto thirty days and no
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