ORDER (Oral)

1. A learned three-member Arbitral Tribunal has, in arbitral proceedings between the parties of which it is in seisin, passed an interlocutory order on 18th June 2022, rejecting an application filed by the petitioner under Order VII Rule 14 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, to bring on record additional documents.

2. This petition, under Article 227 of the Constitution of India, assails the said order.

3. To my mind, the present petition is not maintainable, in view of the following enunciation of the law, to be found in paras 45 and 46 of the report in SBP & Co. v. Patel Engineering Ltd., (2005) 8 SCC 618 :

"45. It is seen that some High Courts have proceeded on the basis that any order passed by an arbitral tribunal during arbitration, would be capable of being challenged under Article 226 or 227 of the Constitution of India. We see no warrant for such an approach. Section 37 makes certain orders of the arbitral tribunal appealable. Under Section 34, the aggrieved party has an avenue for ventilating his grievances against the award including any in-between orders that might have been passed by the arbitral tribunal acting under Section 16 of the Act. The p