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R. N. MANJULA
Image Infotainment Limited, Represented by its Managing Director, K. Kumar – Appellant
Versus
Labour India Public School and Junior College, Represented by its Managing Director, Labour India Knowledge City, Labour India Hills, Kerala – Respondent
JUDGMENT
(Prayer: Arbitration Original Petition filed under Section 34(2) of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, prays to set aside the award passed by the sole arbitrator, Chennai dated 02.02.2022 in the Arbitration Case No.A.C.P (CNICA) No.2 of 2019.)
This Arbitration Original Petition has been filed seeking to set aside the award passed by the learned Arbitrator, Chennai dated 02.02.2022 in the Arbitration Case No.A.C.P (CNICA) No.2 of 2019.
2. Heard the learned counsels for the petitioner and respondent and perused the materials available on record.
Petition in brief:-
3. The petitioner and the respondent have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on 01.06.2017 in connection with a project of the respondent’s school; the agreement was for six years; as per the Memorandum of Understanding, 500 students would be admitted into the programme on a fee of Rs.5,000/- each; however a dispute arose between the petitioner and the respondent with regard to the payments; since the Memorandum of Understanding contained an arbitration clause, a sole Arbitrator was appointed; during the arbitration proceedings, the respondent had filed an Application in I.A.No.1 of 2019 and challenged that
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The enforceability of an arbitration agreement is independent of the stamping of the agreement, and objections regarding stamp duty must be resolved by the Arbitral Tribunal, not the Court.
The admission of an unstamped document in arbitration prevents later challenges based on its insufficiency, as established by Section 36 of the Indian Stamp Act, 1899.
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The main legal point established in the judgment is that an arbitration agreement under an unstamped and unregistered contract is not enforceable, as per the recent law laid down by the Constitutiona....
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Under the Indian Stamp Act, once a document is found to be insufficiently stamped, the court is duty-bound to impound the document and send it to the Collector for proper assessment and payment of th....
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