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2025 Supreme(SC) 751

SANJIV KHANNA, B. R. GAVAI, SANJAY KUMAR, AUGUSTINE GEORGE MASIH, K. V. VISWANATHAN
Gayatri Balasamy – Appellant
Versus
ISG Novasoft Technologies Limited – Respondent


Advocates appeared:
For the Petitioner(s): Mr. Debmalya Banerjee, Adv. Mr. Rohan Sharma, Adv. Mr. Vikas Gogne, Adv. Mr. Satyam Chaturvedi, Adv. Mr. Agastya Shelat, Adv. Ms. Tanvi Seth, Adv. M/s. Karanjawala & Co., AOR Mr. Tushar Mehta, SG Mr. Sudarshan Lamba, AOR Mr. Kanu Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Ashwin Shanker, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Grover, Adv. Ms. Ridhi Nyati, Adv. Ms. Vanshika Jain, Adv. Mr. Shivlal Singh, Adv. Mr. K.V. Mohan, AOR Mr. Vaibhav Dang, Adv. Mr. Amrendra Kumar Mehta, AOR Ms. Anita Mahapatra, Adv. Ms. Gunjan Kumari, Adv. Mr. Jinendra Jain, AOR Mr. Ajay Jain, Adv. Mr. Krishna Sharma, Adv. Ms. Bijay Lakshmi, Adv. Mr. M.N. Mishra, Adv. Mr. Manoj Gautam, Adv. Mr. Kunaal Sharma, Adv. Mr. Akul Chalia, Adv. Mr. Harshit Batra, Adv. Mr. Mitika Choudhary, Adv. Ms. Shreya Jain, Adv. Mr. Akshat Jain, Adv. Mr. R.C. Bansal, Adv. Mr. T. Harish Kumar, AOR Mr. Bharathi Subramanian, Adv. Mr. Shubham P. Chopra, Adv. Mr. Arvind Datar, Sr. Adv. Mr. Nishanth Patil, AOR Mr. M.V. Mukunda, Adv. Mr. Mithun Shashank, Adv. Mr. M.V. Swaroop, Adv. Ms. Payal Chawla, Adv. Ms. Hina Shaheen, Adv. Mr. Arijit Dey, Adv. Mr. Manish K. Bishnoi, AOR Mr. Khubaib Shakeel, Adv.
For the Respondent(s): Mr. Saurabh Kirpal, Sr. Adv. Ms. Manmeet Kaur, Adv. Mr. Debmalya Banerjee, Adv. Mr. Rohan Sharma, Adv. Mr. Gurtej Pal Singh, Adv. Mr. Rohan Anand, Adv. Mr. Jai Dogra, Adv. Ms. Liza Vohra, Adv. Mr. Dhruv, Adv. M/s. Karanjawala & Co., AOR Mr. Naresh Markanda, Sr. Adv. Mr. Rohan Markanda, Adv. Mrs. Harsheen Madan Palli, Adv. Mr. Chritarth Palli, AOR Mr. Ritin Rai, Sr. Adv. Mr. Benny P. Thomas, Sr. Adv. Mr. Abel Tom Benny, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Kshetarpal, Adv. Ms. Ritika Sinha, Adv. Ms. Ankita Gupta, Adv. Mr. Dhiliban Varadarajan, Adv. Mr. Debasis Jena, Adv. Mr. Prakash Ranjan Nayak, AOR Mr. Tushar Mehta, S.G. Mr. Surjendu Sankar Das, AOR Ms. Annie Mittal, Adv. Mr. Tushar Mehta, S.G. Mr. Nikilesh Ramachandran, AOR Mr. Lovekesh Aggarwal, Adv. Ms. Neelam Rathore, Adv. Mr. Shubham Seth, Adv. Ms. Prakruti Malhotra, Adv. Mr. Abhinav Sharma, Adv. Mr. Alok Tripathi, AOR Mr. Vikramjit Banerjee, ASG Mr. Sudarshan Lamba, AOR Mr. Rahul G. Tanwani, Adv. Mr. Anantha Narayana M.G., AOR Mr. Shubhendu Anand, Adv. Mr. Tadimalla Bhaskar Gowtham, Adv. Mr. Ayush Anand, Adv. Mr. Sudipto Sircar, Adv. Mr. Aditya Shekhar, Adv. Mr. Rishi Ashok, Adv. Mr. P.D.V. Srikar, Adv. Mr. Aman Shukla, Adv. Mr. Alabhya Dhamija, Adv. Mr. Aditya Kashyap, Adv. Mr. Neeleshwar Pavani, Adv. Mr. M. Chandrakanth Reddy, Adv. Mr. Suvigya Awasthy, Adv. Mr. Sameer Jain, Adv. Mr. Vivek Joshi, Adv. Mr. Rohan Gulati, Adv. Mr. Deepesh Raj, Adv. Mr. Soayib Qureshi, AOR Mr. Tushar Mehta, S.G. Mr. Ankur Mittal, Adv. Mr. Abhay Gupta, Adv. Ms. Nidhi Mittal, Adv. Mr. U.C. Mittal, Adv. Ms. Ikshita Parihar, Adv. Mr. Sanjivan Chakraborty, Adv. Mr. Rakshit Ranjan, Adv. Mr. Ankur Saboo, Adv. Mr. Aviraj Pandey, Adv. Mr. Kaustubh Prakash, AOR Ms. Hita Sharma, Adv. Ms. Tanya Singh, Adv. Mr. Gourab Banerji, Sr. Adv. Mr. George Pothan Poothicote, Adv. Ms. Manisha Singh, Adv. Ms. Jyoti Singh, Adv. Mr. Prakarsh Kumar, Adv. Mr. Rakesh Talukdar, Adv. Mr. T.S. Sundaram, Adv. Mr. Subhro Mukherjee, Adv. Mr. Mohit Pandey, Adv. Ms. Raka Chatterjee, Adv. Ms. Venkata Supreeth, Adv. Mr. Arunava Mukherjee, AOR Mr. Abhishek Kumar Rao, Adv. Mr. Shailesh Suman, AOR Mr. Shekhar Naphade, Sr. Adv. Mr. Aniruddha Joshi, Sr. Adv. Mr. Shashibhushan P. Adgaonkar, AOR Ms. Salonee Paranjape, Adv. Mrs. Pradnya S. Adgaonkar, Adv. Mr. Kiran Bishnoi, Adv. Mr. A.S. Jamuna, Adv. Mr. Anoop Raj, Adv. Mr. Prashanto Chandra Sen, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sudiep Shrivastava, Adv. Mr. Pranav Sachdeva, AOR Ms. Rashi Goswami, Adv. Mr. Jatin Bhardwaj, Adv. Mr. Tanmay Yadav, Adv. Ms. Sirithi Sreekumar, Adv. Mr. Pallav Mongia, AOR Mr. Shashank Dwivedi, Adv. Mr. Anubhav Mishra, Adv. Ms. Sunanda Chowdhury, Adv. Mr. Saket Sikri, Adv. Mr. Naman Joshi, Adv. Ms. Ritika Vohra, Adv. Mr. Ajay P. Singh, Adv. Ms. Charu Ambwani, Adv. Mr. Guneet Sidhu, Adv. Mr. Priyal Goyal, Adv. Mr. Rahul, Adv. Ms. Amber Tickoo, Adv. Mr. Shivam Gera, Adv. Mr. Akashdeep Singh, Adv. Mr. Verdaan Jain, Adv. Ms. Manisha Ambwani, AOR Ms. Sukanya Lal, AOR Mr. Saurav Agrawal, Adv. Ms. Sonali Jaitley Bakhshi, Adv. Mr. Jaiyesh Bakhshi, Adv. Mr. Ravi Tyagi, AOR Mr. Mayank Mishra, Adv. Ms. Manmilan Sidhu, Adv. Mr. Manish Bhatt, Adv. Mr. Atharva Koppal, Adv. Ms. Neetu Devrani, Adv. Mr. Abhijay Basu, Adv. Mr. Babit Jamwal, Adv. Ms. Prachi Dubey, Adv. Mr. Anshuman Chowdhury, Adv. Mr. Ajay Sharma, Adv. Ms. Mahek Upadhaya, Adv. Mr. Arya Bhatt, Adv. Ms. Soloni Paliwal, Adv. Mr. Harsh Khabar, Adv. Mr. Sarthak Nayak, Adv. Ms. Anushruti, Adv. Mr. Darius J. Khambata, Sr. Adv. Mr. Aditya Mehta, Adv. Mr. C. Rashmikant, Adv. Mr. Mahesh Agarwal, Adv. Mr. Ankur Saigal, Adv. Ms. S. Lakshmi Iyer, Adv. Mr. Rohan Dakshini, Adv. Ms. Namrata Shah, Adv. Ms. Suprriya Lopes, Adv. Ms. Sailee Dhayalkar, Adv. Mr. Shashwat Singh, Adv. Mr. Jai Sanyal, Adv. Ms. Vidhi Shah, Adv. Mr. E.C. Agrawala, AOR Mr. Gaurav Pachnanda, Sr. Adv. Ms. Garima Bajaj, AOR Mr. Mohit Goel, Adv. Mr. Sidharth Goel, Adv. Mr. Raghavendra Mohan Bajaj, Adv. Ms. Karmanya Dev Sharma, Adv. Ms. Aishna Jain, Adv. Mr. Shashwat Mukherjee, Adv. Mr. Ishaan Pratap Singh, Adv. Ms. Nikita Jaitly, Adv. Mr. Siddharth Kapoor, Adv. Ms. Shreya Bansal, Adv. Mr. Sumeet Pushkarna, Sr. Adv. Mr. Nikhilesh Krishnan, Adv. Mr. Gaurav Varma, AOR Mr. Varun Chugh, Adv. Mr. Sudeep Vijayan, Adv. Mr. Abhishek Bhushan Singh, Adv. Mr. Swapnil Joshi, Adv. Ms. Aishwarya Mishra, Adv. Dr. Amit George, Adv. Mr. Dhiraj Abraham Philip, AOR Mr. Febin Mathew Varghese, Adv. Ms. Chand Chopra, Adv. Ms. Namrata Mohapatra, Adv. Ms. Achalika Ahuja, Adv. Mr. Arkaneil Bhaumik, Adv. Mr. Adhishwar Suri, Adv. Ms. Suparna Jain, Adv. Ms. Ibansara Syiemlieh, Adv. Mr. Dushyant Kishna Kaul, Adv. Ms. Rupam Jha, Adv. Ms. Medhavi Bhatia, Adv. Mr. Maniesh Gandhi, Adv. Mr. Naveen Richard, Adv.

Judgement Key Points

One Indian decision that explicitly recognizes the court's power to partially set aside or sever parts of an arbitral award is a case involving a dispute over claims that were independently and separately adjudicated. The court held that when the award contains multiple claims or issues, and some of those are legally and practically separable, the court can exercise its authority to excise or sever the invalid portion without affecting the enforceability of the remaining valid parts. This decision underscores that the award must be capable of being divided into self-contained components, which are not inseparably intertwined, to justify partial setting aside. The ruling emphasizes that such a severance preserves the enforceability of the rest of the award and aligns with the principles of judicial restraint and the doctrine of severability.


JUDGMENT :

SANJIV KHANNA, CJI.

1.A three-Judge Bench of this Court, vide order dated 20th February 2024, directed that the Special Leave Petitions in Gayatri Balasamy v. ISG Novasoft Technologies Limited , 2024 SCC OnLine SC 1681 be placed before the Chief Justice of India for an appropriate order. The matter was to be examined to determine the need to refer the following questions of law to a larger Bench:

    “1. Whether the powers of the Court under Sections 34 and 37 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996 will include the power to modify an arbitral award?

    2. If the power to modify the award is available, whether such power can be exercised only where the award is severable, and a part thereof can be modified?

    3. Whether the power to set aside an award under Section 34 of the Act, being a larger power, will include the power to modify an arbitral award and if so, to what extent?

    4. Whether the power to modify an award can be read into the power to set aside an award under Section 34 of the Act?

    5. Whether the judgment of this Court in Project Director NHAI vs. M. Hakeem, (2021) 9 SCC 1 followed in Larsen Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Company vs. Union of India, (2023) 15 SCC

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