Union of India vs Reliance Industries Limited

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2023 Supreme(Del) 1414

ANUP JAIRAM BHAMBHANI
Union of India – Appellant
Versus
Reliance Industries Limited – Respondent

Advocates appeared:
Mr. K.K. Venugopal, Attorney General for India with Mr. A.K. Ganguli, Senior Advocate with Ms. Mamta Tiwari, Ms. Swati Sinha, Mr. Vijay Kumar & Mr. Debesh Panda, Advocates, for the Petitioner.
Mr. Harish Salve, Senior Advocate with Mr. Sameer Parekh, Mrs. Sonali Basu Parekh, Mr. Ishan Nagar, Mr.Prateek Khandelwal, Mr. Manu Bajaj and Ms. Chetna Rai, Advocates, for Rl.
Mr. Dayan Krishnan, Senior Advocate with Mr. Mahesh Agarwal, Ms. Niyati Kohli, Mr. Pranjit Bhattacharya Ms. Manavi Agarwal and Mr. Shravan Niranjan, Advocates, for R2.
Mr. Sasiprabhu, Mr. Vishnu Sharma, Mr. Tushar Bhardwaj, Mr. Vinayak Maini and Mr. Prakhar Agarwal, Advocates, for R3.

Table of Content
1. genesis of dispute arising from arbitration. (Para 1 , 4 , 5 , 6)
2. summary of claims and tribunal's decisions. (Para 11 , 12)
3. ministry challenges based on award legality. (Para 15 , 16 , 17)
4. reliance's argument on intervention limits. (Para 20 , 21 , 24)
5. court's assessment of arbitral proceeding's legality. (Para 28 , 29 , 30)

JUDGMENT

Anup Jairam Bhambhani, J.

S. No.	Particulars	Page No.
I	Introduction	3
II	Genesis of the Dispute Leading to Arbitration	4
III	Summary of Claims & Summary of Tribunal's Decisions	6
IV	Summary of the Production Sharing Contract	10
V	Legal and Contractual Architecture	12
VI	Ministry's Grounds of Challenge to the Arbitral Award	19
VII	Submissions on Behalf of Reliance	31
VIII	Ministry's Submissions in Rejoinder	40
IX	Discussion and Conclusions Was the arbitration an `international commercial arbitration' Did the arbitration involve a question of `public law' making the dispute non-arbitrable Is the award in conflict with the `public policy of India' Was the transaction between the contesting parties governed by the `public trust doctrine' Has the arbitral tribunal taken a `possible view'.	43

I. INTRODUCTION

1. By way of the present petition under section 3

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2023 Supreme(Del) 1414

ANUP JAIRAM BHAMBHANIUnion of India – AppellantVersusReliance Industries Limited – Respondent

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ANUP JAIRAM BHAMBHANI
Union of India – Appellant
Versus
Reliance Industries Limited – Respondent