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2022 Supreme(Raj) 622

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN BENCH AT JAIPUR
ASHOK KUMAR GAUR, J.
Eptisa Servicios De Ingenieria SL, Through Executive Director And Authorized Representative Mr. Swarup Chakrabarti – Appellant
Versus
Ajmer Smart City Limited, RUDSICO, Ajmer Through The Chief Executive Officer – Respondent
S.B. Civil Writ Petition No.13488/2019
Decided on : 23-05-2022

Advocates appeared:
For the Appellant : Mr. Ajatshatru Mina, Adv.
For the Respondent:Mr. Rajendra Prasad, Senior Advocate with Mr. Anshuman Saxena, Adv.

Headnote:

Constitution of India, 1950 – Article 227 – Arbitration & Conciliation Act, 1996 – Section 34 (4), 37 – Commercial Courts Act, 2015 – Section 13 – Writ petition has been filed by petitioner, challenging order passed by Commercial Court No.1, wherein application filed by petitioner under Section 34 (4) of Arbitration & Conciliation Act, 1996, has been dismissed –Held, Court is afraid to accept submission of learned counsel for petitioner to hold that prayer sought by petitioner in his application was only with regard to the reasons required to be furnished because findings were already recorded by Arbitral Tribunal – Court finds that order, though has been passed on different reasoning of not allowing application of petitioner, however, in view of law laid down by Apex Court in case of I-Pay Clearing Services Private Limited Vs. ICICI Bank Limited (supra), application so filed by petitioner cannot be allowed – Court, accordingly without interfering in order, finds that application filed by petitioner under Section 34 (4) of Act of 1996 is not liable to be entertained – Writ petition dismissed.

ORDER :

1. This writ petition has been filed by the petitioner, challenging the order dated 27.05.2019 passed by the Commercial Court No.1, Jaipur, wherein application filed by the petitioner under Section 34 (4) of the Arbitration & Conciliation Act, 1996 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Act of 1996’), has been dismissed.

2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the arbitral award dated 02.02.2019 has been put to challenge by the respondent by filing application under Section 34 of the Act of 1996 in the Commercial Court.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the petitioner moved an application under Section 34 (4) of the Act of 1996 to adjourn the proceedings in the application filed by the respondent and asked to give an opportunity to the Arbitral Tribunal to resume the arbitral proceedings or to take such other action as in the opinion of the Arbitral Tribunal was required to eliminate the grounds for setting aside the arbitral award.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that by filing application under Section 34 (4) of the Act of 1996, the petitioner pleaded that the arbitral award was passed on 02.02.2019 in favour of the petitioner while recording the findings in paras 50 & 54 of the award.

5. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the petitioner pointed out before the court below that while passing the impugned award, the Arbitral Tribunal inadvertently did not take into account certain important facts such as:-

(i) the award of the Arbitral Tribunal omitted the adjudication on each issue to give findings on the issue separately.

(ii) Omitted to explain the words where “bare minimum principles of natural justice” and in “hyper technical ground” used in paragraph 50, while setting aside the impugned termination order dated 09.06.2017.

(iii) Omitted the reasons for providing INR Rs.4,80,00,000/ against loss of business, reputation & goodwill and omitted to assign explanation for setting aside the counter claim of the respondent-applicant in the appeal.

6. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the power given to the Commercial Court under Section 34 (4) of the Act of 1996 was required to be exercised and the very object of the Act of 1996 was to give finality to the award and as per Section 34 (4) of the Act of 1996, the Arbitral Tribunal was required to be given an opportunity to eliminate the grounds for setting aside the award under the provisions of Section 34 of the Act of 1996.

7. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that on the basis of judgment passed by the Apex Court in the case of Kinnari Mullick & Anr. Vs. Ghanshyam Das Damani (AIR 2017 SC 2785); only three procedural formalities were to be considered while granting a relief under Section 34 (4) namely (i) a request by a party; (ii) the award must not have been set-aside under Section 34 (iii) there must exist grounds on which the award may be set-aside under Section 34.

8. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that while deciding the application by impugned order dated 27.05.2019, the court below has wrongly come to the conclusion that the petitioner was a respondent before the Court and he had not filed any objection against the impugned award.

9. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the Tribunal has further committed an error in law by holding that precedent condition to move an application under Section 34 (4) is that a party must be aggrieved by the impugned award and had challenged the award under Section 34 for the deficiency in arbitral award.

10. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the Tribunal has wrongly recorded a finding that bare perusal of the award passed by the Arbitral Tribunal showed that each issue had been taken separately and the contentions and issues were decided and all these aspects were required to be looked into at the time of final arguments.

11. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the court below has not kept in mind the law la

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