JUDGMENT

[Statutory provisions have been reproduced in footnotes only to the extent they are relevant.]

1. Meera Goyal ("Meera" hereinafter) challenges, in this petition under Section 34[1] of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996 ("the 1996 Act"), award dated 8 May 2020 passed by the learned Sole Arbitrator in an arbitration instituted against Meera by the respondent Priti Saraf ("Priti" hereinafter).

[1]34. Application for setting aside arbitral award. -

(1) Recourse to a Court against an arbitral award may be made only by an application for setting aside such award in accordance with sub-section (2) and sub-section (3).

(2) An arbitral award may be set aside by the Court only if-

(a) the party making the application 45[establishes on the basis of the record of the arbitral tribunal that -

(i) a party was under some incapacity; or

(ii) the arbitration agreement is not valid under the law to which the parties have subjected it or, failing any indication thereon, under the law for the time being in force; or

(iii) the party making the application was not given proper notice of the appointment of an arbitrator or of the arbitral proceedings or was otherwise unable to present his case; or