Madhya Pradesh Rural Road Developmentauthority and Anr. v. Backbone Enterprises Limited and Anr.

Judgment

CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION: Civil Appeal No. 4012 of 2018. From the Judgment and Order dated 11.05.2011 of the High Court of 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, Vivekananda B., 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, Prabhat Kumar, Ms. Petal Chandok, Ms. Ankita Sharma, Rishabh, [2018] 4 S.C.R. 255 M. R. Shamshad, Aditya Samaddar, B. S. Banthia, Ms. Swarupama Chaturvedi, 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, Pavesh Joshi, Chavu Ambwani (For M/S. AP & J Chambers), B. K. Satija, Sumit Attri, K. Krishna Kumar, Hitendra Nath Rath, Nilava Bandyopadhayay, Rahul Pandey, Advs. for the appearing parties. The following Order of the Court was passed: O R D E R

1Delay condoned. Leave granted.

2In view of judgment of this Court in Va Tech Escher Wyass Flovel Ltd. v. MPSE Board & Another, (2011) 13 SCC 261 having been overruled, the jurisdiction to deal with the dispute in question is vested with the M.P. Arbitration Tribunal constituted under the M.P. Madhyastham Adhikaran Adhiniyam, 1983. The direction in the impugned order under Section 11 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 is set aside.

3The appeals are disposed of.

4The respondent will be at liberty to take their remedy before the statutory Tribunal in accordance with law.

5The parties may appear before the M.P. Arbitration Tribunal for further proceedings on 9th July, 2018.

6The appellant may serve a copy of this order on the respondents. Kalpana K. Tripathy Appeals disposed of.