Supreme Court of India

Office for Alternative Architecture v. Ircon Infrastructure and Services Ltd.

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Bench Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha and Manoj Misra JJ.
Decided 12 May 2025

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the respondent cannot profit from certain observations made by a two-Judge bench of this Court in Emaar (supra).

Judgment, page 6

From the headnote

Issue for Consideration Whether while exercising power u/s.11 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, the Court has to confine its consideration as to the existence of an arbitration agreement between the parties; If so, whether it would be permissible, while exercising jurisdiction u/s.11, to hold that some of the claims raised are non-arbitrable or fall within excepted category. Headnotes† Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 – s.11 – In a nutshell, the case of the appellant, inter alia, is that while exercising power u/s.11 of the 1996 Act, the Court has to only examine whether…

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