Supreme Court of India

Union of India v. M/s. Popular Builders, Calcutta

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Bench G.B. Pattanaik, M.B. Shah and S.N. Phukan JJ.
Decided 17 October 2000

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Arbitration Act, 1940-Sections 30 and 33-Award of arbitrator-Non­ existence of arbitrable dispute-Plea of-Held, there must be a dispute at the time of reference to arbitration; if such plea is raised before arbitrator and was not taken into consideration, then the award is bad. Respondent-Builder entered into an agreement with appellant for construction of a building. After the construction of the building, the appellant drew up a final bill and sent it to the respondent for acceptance.…

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