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SUNITA AGARWAL, PRANAV TRIVEDI
Rajkot Municipal Corporation Through Municipal Commissioner – Appellant
Versus
S. N. Enviro-Tech Pvt. Ltd. – Respondent
ORDER :
(PER : HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRANAV TRIVEDI)
1. By way of present appeal under Section 37 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (hereinafter referred to as the “Act”), the appellant begs to challenge the legality, validity and propriety of the judgment and order dated 29.05.2023 passed by the learned Commercial Court, Rajkot (for short the “Commercial Court”) in Civil Misc. Application No. 33 of 2022, preferred under Section 34 of the Act.
2. The factual matrix which led to the filing of the present appeal under Section 37 of the Act is that the appellant – original respondent is a statutory local authority governed under the provisions of The Gujarat Provincial Municipal Corporation Act, whereas, the respondent, is a Company registered under the Companies Act, and engaged in the business of ‘Turnkey Execution and Development of Environmental and Infrastructure Projects’ related to water and Sewage Treatment Plants.
2.1. It is the case of the appellant that the appellant intended to design, build and commissioning a project of 44.5 MLD Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) based on conventional activated slugged process at Madhapar, District : Rajkot. The appellant also intende
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Arbitral awards are not appealed against but assessed for public policy adherence; courts cannot rectify mere errors of fact.
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