Delhi HC dismisses Future plea to terminate Amazon arbitration

the Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed the plea by Future group firms in search of to quash the continuing arbitration proceedings in Singapore with Amazon referring to the Rs 24,500-crore merger take care of Reliance Retail. With this order, the arbitration proceedings initiated by Amazon in opposition to Future Retail (FRL) over the merger deal will go as per schedule on January 5.
Dismissing the plea filed by FRL and Future Coupons (FCPL) the court docket mentioned that mere fixation of tight timelines or denial of requests for adjournment or deciding the order wherein the pleas filed by the events might be taken up can’t be cause sufficient to contend that the orders of the tribunal are perverse or missing in inherent jurisdiction.
Justice Amit Bansal in his order mentioned “no grounds are made out for interference in the present petitions” and the arbitrators have far higher flexibility in adopting process to conduct the arbitration proceedings as in comparison with a civil court docket.
Stating that it’s not for the court docket to intrude with the scheduling of the arbitration proceedings as sought by Future, the HC mentioned the arbitral tribunal has the only discretion to determine whether or not the termination purposes ought to be heard earlier than or after the hearings of the skilled witnesses. It additionally famous that the tribunal had been accommodating in the direction of all events because it had reduce brief the scheduled 4 days’ listening to of skilled witnesses to a few and the fourth day, i.e. January 8 has been mounted for listening to the termination purposes filed by FRL.