Supreme Court of India

Gujarat Composite Limited v. A Infrastructure Limited & Ors.

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Reported as [2023] 5 S.C.R. 103
Bench Dinesh Maheshwari and Sudhanshu Dhulia JJ.
Decided 1 May 2023

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above, these appeals fail and are, therefore, dismissed.

Judgment, page 38

From the headnote

Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 – s.8 – Arbitrab ility of the dispute in question – Held: Except the princ ipal licence agreement, none of the other agreements contained any arbit ration clause, even if they related to the same property and also involved the appellant and the respondent No.1 – Even if the original lice nce agreement is said to be the genesis of the contractua l relations of the appellant and the respondent No.1, that does not ipso facto lead to the availability of the arbitration agreement in r elation to the dispute in question emanating from the tripartite a greement

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