Supreme Court of India
M/s. Indian Farmers Fertilizer Co-operative Limited v. M/s Bhadra Products
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What the Court ordered
We are of the view that Parliament may consider amending Section 34 of the Act so as to consolidate all interim awards together with the final arbitral award, so that one challenge under Section 34 can be made after delivery of the final arbitral award.
Judgment, page 24
From the headnote
Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 – ss. 2(c), 31(6), 32 and 34 – Interim Arbitral Award – Whether an award delivered by an Arbitrator, which decides the issue of limitation, can be said to be an interim award and whether such interim award can then be set aside u/s.34 of the Act – Held: Insofar as first question is concerned, yes, the language of s.31(6) is advisedly wide in nature – reading of the said sub-section makes it clear that the jurisdiction to make an interim arbitral award is left to the good sense of the arbitral tribunal and that it extends to “any matter” with respect to…
Authorities it was built on
- 1973 Hariprasad Mulshanker Trivedi v. V. B. Raju and Others
- 1965 Pandurang Dhoni Chougule v. Maruti Hari Jadhav
- 1968 Official Trustee, West Bengal & Ors. v. Sachindra Nath Chatterjee & Anr.
- 1963 Ittavira Mathai v. Varkey Varkey and Another
- 1961 Juggilal Kamlapat v. General Fibre Dealers Ltd. (and Connected Appeal)
- 1999 Satwant Singh Sodhi v. State of Punjab and Ors.
Where later benches applied it
- 2019 M/s. Uttarakhand Purv Sainik Kalyan Nigam Limited v. Northern Coal Field Limited
- 2019 M/s Embassy Property Developments Pvt. Ltd.v. State of Karnataka & Ors. v. State of Karnataka & Ors
- 2019 Nusli Neville Wadia v. Ivory Properties & Ors.
- 2026 M/s Mcm Worldwide Private Limited v. M/s Construction Industry Development Council
- 2025 Urban Infrastructure Real Estate Fund v. Neelkanth Realty Private Limited
- 2023 In Re: Interplay Between Arbitration Agreements Under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996 and the Indian Stamp Act 1899 v..
Of those, 1 relied on · 2 referred to · 3 mentioned
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