Nullity at the En­force­ment Stage: A new chal­lenge to ar­bit­ral awards in India post- Elec­tros­teel

De­vel­op­ment sum­mary

Jugaad Singh’s art­icle in Ar­bit­ra­tion In­ter­na­tion­al ex­am­ines the Indian Su­preme Court’s de­cision in Elec­tros­teel Steel Ltd v Ispat Car­ri­er Pvt Ltd and the use of a nullity ob­jec­tion under sec­tion 47 of the Civil Pro­ced­ure Code at the en­force­ment stage of ar­bit­ral awards. It as­sesses that ap­proach along­side the lim­ited chal­lenge mech­an­ism in sec­tion 34 of the Ar­bit­ra­tion and Con­cili­ation Act 1996 and the fi­nal­ity of awards, and dis­cusses the Court’s reas­on­ing in treat­ing the award as void ab initio for con­tra­ven­ing the In­solv­ency and Bank­ruptcy Code 2016.