Jai Parkash and Others v. M/S Landmark Apartment
Case brief
What is this about?
CR-456-2024 (O&M) | Punjab & Haryana High Court, Chandigarh | Anil Kshetarpal J | decided 01.05.2025 | Section 8 Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996 | unregistered arbitration agreement no bar (Supreme Court Larger Bench, In Re: Interplay between Arbitration Agreements and Indian Stamp Act, 2023 SCC OnLine 1666, dated 13.12.2023) | clause 9 supplementary agreement 31.01.2014 terminated arbitration clause of collaboration agreement 08-08-2010 | Section 62 Indian Contract Act 1872 deletion of arbitration clause (clause 27 of original agreement) | civil revision dismissed.
What did the court decide?
Adopting the Larger Bench decision of the Supreme Court dated 13.12.2023 in In Re: Interplay between Arbitration Agreements under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act 1996 and the Indian Stamp Act 1889 (2023 SCC OnLine 1666), non-registration of the arbitration agreement will not debar the Court from relegating the parties to arbitration; accordingly, the first ground of challenge affords no basis to interfere.