Supreme Court of India
MADHYA PRADESH RURAL ROAD DEVELOPMENTAUTHORITY AND ANR. versus BACKBONE ENTERPRISES LIMITED AND ANR. on 18 April 2018
[2018] 4 S.C.R. 255
MADHYA PRADESH RURAL ROAD DEVELOPMENTAUTHORITY AND ANR.
v.
BACKBONE ENTERPRISES LIMITED AND ANR.
(Civil Appeal No. 4012 of 2018)
APRIL 18, 2018
[ADARSH KUMAR GOEL AND R. F. NARIMAN, JJ.]
Madhya Pradesh Madhyastham Adhikaran Adhiniyam, 1983:
Jurisdiction of Arbitration Tribunal – Held: Since the *VaTech case had been overruled, jurisdiction to deal with the disputeis vested with the Arbitration Tribunal constituted under the Act –Impugned order is set aside.
*Va Tech Escher Wyass Flovel Ltd. v. MPSE Board &Another (2011) 13 SCC 261 – Stood overruled.
Case Law Reference
(2011) 13 SCC 261 Stood overruledPara 2
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION: Civil Appeal No. 4012of 2018.
From the Judgment and Order dated 11.05.2011 of the High Courtof Madhya Pradesh at Indore in Arbitration Case No. 7 of 2011.
WITH
Civil Appeal Nos. 4013 and 4014 of 2018.
Saurabh Mishra, AAG., Jugal Kishore Gilda, Purushaindra Kumar,Advs. Gen., Naman Nagrath, Neeraj Kishan Kaul, Parag Triathi, Ms.Kiran Suri, Sr. Advs., Harsh Parashar, Jubin Prasad, Aman Pandey,Jasdeep S. Dhillon, Prabhat K. Chaurasia, Ms. Renuka Sahu, Jay Savla,Amar Varun, Shantanu Krishna, Ms. Anusuya Salwan, Dhurav Mishra,Divyanshu Kumar Srivastav, Akash Lamba, Viren Sibal, VivekanandaB., Vikas Sood, Apporv Kurup, Ms. Isha Mital, Dr. Harsh Pathak,Ms. Shweta Mahajan, Mohit Chaubey, Siddharth Shukla, Neeraj Shekhar,Arjun Garg, Mishra Saurabh, Sridhar Potaraju, Sudhir Mishra, PrabhatKumar, Ms. Petal Chandok, Ms. Ankita Sharma, Rishabh,
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AM. R. Shamshad, Aditya Samaddar, B. S. Banthia, Ms. SwarupamaChaturvedi, Saurabh S. Sinha, Aditya Dev Triguna, Sunil Singh Parihar,M/S. AP & J Chambers, Prafulla Kumar Behera, Manish K. Bhardwaj,S. S. Nehra, Ms. Anuradha Mishra, Ms. Vanshaja Shukla, Varun Mohan,Swastik Singh, Manish Yadav, Ms. Swarupama Chaturvedi, B.N. Dubey,Ms. Devika Gulati, Hitendra Nath Rath, Mayank Kshirsagar, PaveshBJoshi, Chavu Ambwani (For M/S. AP & J Chambers), B. K. Satija,Sumit Attri, K. Krishna Kumar, Hitendra Nath Rath, NilavaBandyopadhayay, Rahul Pandey, Advs. for the appearing parties.
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1. Delay condoned. Leave granted.
2. In view of judgment of this Court in Va Tech Escher WyassFlovel Ltd.v. MPSE Board & Another, (2011) 13 SCC 261 having beenoverruled, the jurisdiction to deal with the dispute in question is vestedDwith the M.P. Arbitration Tribunal constituted under the M.P.Madhyastham Adhikaran Adhiniyam, 1983. The direction in the impugnedorder under Section 11 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 isset aside.
3. The appeals are disposed of.
E4. The respondent will be at liberty to take their remedy beforethe statutory Tribunal in accordance with law.
5. The parties may appear before the M.P. Arbitration Tribunalfor further proceedings on 9[th] July, 2018.
6. The appellant may serve a copy of this order on the respondents.
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