Case Law Analysis
|Bombay High Court
Section 34 Arbitration Act | Suppressing Vital Evidence Like EOW Complaint Renders Award Patentedly Illegal : Bombay HC
The Bombay High Court has held that an arbitral tribunal commits patent illegality by dismissing material evidence-such as an EOW complaint or tax returns-as irrelevant or private, thereby evading its duty to adjudicate core factual disputes. This ruling reinforces that arbitrators cannot sidestep substantive justice by procedural label, impacting all commercial arbitration parties relying on documentary proof.