Supreme Court of India

Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam Ltd. v. M/s Navigant Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

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Reported as [2021] 1 S.C.R. 1135
Bench Indu Malhotra and Ajay Rastogi JJ.
Decided 2 March 2021

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What the Court ordered

We are of the considered opinion that the period of limitation for filing objections would have to be reckoned from the date on which the signed copy of the award was made available to the parties i.e. on 19.05.2018 in the instant case.

Judgment, page 26

From the headnote

Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 – s.31 and s.34 – Period of limitation for filing the petition u/s. 34 – service level agreement was executed by the appellant-corporation in favour of the respondent-company providing call centre services – Agreement provided arbitration clause – The appellant-corporation term inated the service level agreement, which led to dispute between t he parties – The disputes were referred to arbitration by a three-member tribunal – The arbitral tribunal orally pronounced the award [2:1] on 27.04.2018, whereby the claims of the respondent-co mpany were allowed

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