Reportable

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION

CIVIL APPEAL NO. 4998 of 2007

SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO.LTD.

....... Appellant

Vs.

VINDHYA TELELINKS LTD. & ORS.

....... Respondents

J U D G M E N T

R.V. Raveendran J.,

These appeals by special leave are filed against the order dated

30.11.2006 passed by the IV Additional District Judge, Rewa, Madhya

Pradesh, aggrieved by the remand, while allowing in part Civil Appeal

Nos.24 and 25 of 2006 filed by the appellant, with a direction to reconsider

the applications of the appellant under Section 45 of the Arbitration and

Conciliation Act, 1996 (‘Act’ for short) in terms of the Judgment of this

Court in Shin-Etsu Chemical Co.Ltd. v. Aksh Optifibre Ltd. & Anr. 2005(7)

SCC 234.

2.

Vindhya Telelinks Ltd. and Optic Fibre Goa Ltd. - respondents 1 & 2

in the first of the two appeals filed Civil Suit Nos. 31-A of 2002

(renumbered as Civil Suit No.38A of 2004) on the file of the Civil Judge,

Class-I, Rewa, Madhya Pradesh for a declaration that the Long Term Sale

and Purchase Agreement entered between appellants and them, was null and

void and for a permanent injunction restraining the appellan